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Azure Cost Management vs Unomaly comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Cost Management
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (8th)
Unomaly
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (37th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Infrastructure and Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. Azure Cost Management is designed for Cloud Cost Management and holds a mindshare of 3.6%, down 5.4% compared to last year.
Unomaly, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Monitoring Software, holds 0.3% mindshare, up 0.1% since last year.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Cost Management3.6%
Apptio Cloudability6.0%
IBM Turbonomic5.4%
Other85.0%
Cloud Cost Management
Cloud Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Unomaly0.3%
Zabbix6.6%
Datadog5.3%
Other87.8%
Cloud Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

Joy Maitra - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Architect at Hexaware Technologies Limited
Continuous monitoring and predictive analytics help provide insights into utilization
Continuous monitoring helps me detect anomalies in the pipeline, preplan resource scalability, and assist with cost management by offering good visibility into resource utilization. It also offers predictive analytics and some existing features, including dashboards. The AI prediction feature helps forecast based on current utilization trends and suggests improvements like the GenAI feature for interactive inquiries.
technica2771775 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Head at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Has improved error detection significantly but still needs deeper integration with intelligent automation
I have been using Unomaly or LM Envision by LogicMonitor for a year for internal purposes. I personally don't use metrics to evaluate Unomaly's performance as I have a team who handles that aspect. The endgame has moved towards agentic AI. Two years back, it was supposed to be the endgame with ML and prediction anomaly. The world has moved on. Having Unomaly, even the best anomaly doesn't make too much of a difference. The endgame is now about the metrics of autonomy rather than anomaly. What is the degree of autonomy? What is the return on autonomy? Those are the metrics I'm more interested in than just having the anomaly. The world order has shifted, and the KPIs have shifted. They already have Gen AI and agentic AI features, but we haven't used them so far. I will continue to use it in the future for now as it's only been a year. We don't want to change anything internally for now. I would recommend Unomaly to other customers because anybody using observability can and should use Unomaly in the new world. I can't think of any types of companies I would not recommend it to because observability cannot exist without Unomaly nowadays. On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate Unomaly a seven.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It has predictive analysis. It can forecast based on the costs associated with the particular architecture and how often they use it, estimating how much they'll spend."
"The interface is good and user-friendly, allowing us to manage it proactively and efficiently. We use the budgeting and forecasting functions for financial planning, which work fine."
"Continuous monitoring helps me detect anomalies in the pipeline, preplan resource scalability, and assist with cost management by offering good visibility into resource utilization."
"The most valuable thing for us in this solution is the control feature, and I also like the user interface which is simple to use."
"It encompasses a multitude of specialized services, each with its associated costs and considerations."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"What I like the most about Azure Cost Management is that it's similar to a native service, and it has very well-defined product features, particularly if a customer is moving to Azure, then it gives proper insight in terms of compatibility and what benefits a customer can get from the solution."
"I would recommend this product to anyone who is deploying to the cloud."
"Unomaly's anomaly detection capabilities contribute to maintaining system reliability; we cannot find all errors humanly, we cannot configure every possible threshold, and in the new world of intelligence and AI, we need to have this intelligent way of finding out the anomalies."
 

Cons

"There are certainly areas for improvement in terms of labeling the inventory. That's because right now, we use a number of services. But it's difficult when you look at the billing limiters and how they are named. We can't correlate those names to the actual services there. So, I can't click on an item and see if I'm still using this service or not. So it just rolls up and gives me values and figures, but I can't really correlate them to actual services on the Azure platform."
"The affordability of licenses and subscription fees is a critical consideration, as not all companies can easily manage the cost of expensive licenses."
"I would like to see better customization."
"The UI is complex, and it should be less so."
"All the offers should be on the console. You shouldn't need to select from different tabs."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"The maintenance of the product by Azure's support team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I'd like to see improvements in tracking billing and costs. It would be helpful to have alerts generated by instance and location. We use the cloud for multiple programs, and it's difficult to segregate costs and get budgets from customers. We have to tag each instance, which is time-consuming. Automation and proactive alerts by instance or instance IDs would be beneficial."
"Having Unomaly, even the best anomaly doesn't make too much of a difference."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I give the solution's overall cost an eight out of ten."
"I rate the price of Azure Cost Management an eight out of ten."
"Azure Cost Management is a free cost management tool."
"Compared to competitors, it's cost-effective. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive either."
"It's free out of the box."
"The tool's pricing is yearly."
"Customers do not need to pay for the product's license, and the product is free of cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Cost Management?
The pricing part could be improved. I would rate it as six out of ten. It depends on the solution. We mostly pay for our licenses.
What needs improvement with Azure Cost Management?
There are areas in Azure Cost Management that could be improved; sometimes, as a start user or junior developer, if I try to understand which service consumed how much cost and look at different ch...
What is your primary use case for Azure Cost Management?
I use Azure Cost Management indirectly from Snowflake. Not all of the Azure stack is utilized, only some of it for the future.
What needs improvement with Unomaly?
We do not use its Contextual Insight feature. We haven't explored the LLM side. That part wasn't GA. They've recently launched it. The agentic AI feature has not been tried yet. I would need to che...
What is your primary use case for Unomaly?
The primary use cases for Unomaly involve all kinds of things. It's a rate anomaly, error anomaly, it could be anything. Any kind of anomalous pattern can be detected. Unomaly's anomaly detection c...
What advice do you have for others considering Unomaly?
I have been using Unomaly or LM Envision by LogicMonitor for a year for internal purposes. I personally don't use metrics to evaluate Unomaly's performance as I have a team who handles that aspect....
 

Also Known As

Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
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