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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 (5th)
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 6.3% compared to last year.
Unomaly, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Monitoring Software, holds 0.3% mindshare, up 0.0% since last year.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Cost Management3.6%
Apptio Cloudability5.9%
IBM Turbonomic5.4%
Other85.1%
Cloud Cost Management
Cloud Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Unomaly0.3%
Zabbix6.5%
Datadog5.5%
Other87.7%
Cloud Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

HM
Architect at Nagarro
Has helped define budget limits and monitor cost impact during long-term solution planning
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 charts in the dashboards, it's difficult to understand which chart is representing what. Those interfaces could be made simpler. I'm not much into analytics patterns, so Azure Cost Management's Cost Analytics feature hasn't particularly helped my organization understand spending patterns.
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

"My organization benefits from the tool's performance and time-saving features."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is cost optimization."
"The resource forecasting feature is invaluable. Secondly, the ability to drill down to the regional and resource level is incredibly helpful for pinpointing where my costs are accruing."
"I recommend it because it helps forecast and maintain the expected budget, setting clear expectations for the customer which is very important."
"Technical support is good."
"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."
"Microsoft's technical support is good."
"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

"What would make Azure Cost Management better is a more flexible GUI that would allow users to provide more input. Another area for improvement in the solution is its reporting. The report it provides should be easy to understand."
"I would like to see some features included for costing and more information about the components of deployment. Sometimes, it's very difficult to match the component with the solution because the descriptions are not very clear."
"The solution needs an automated dashboard and better reporting."
"The solution could use automatic emailing. That would help improve the product a lot, at least for our purposes."
"Azure Cost Management needs to improve scalability."
"For us, it only works for one provider. So we need to be more of a hybrid solution for any cloud."
"I would like to have added to Azure Cost Management, drill down features from within the cost analysis reporting."
"The maintenance of the product by Azure's support team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"It's free out of the box."
"The tool's licensing costs are monthly."
"Compared to competitors, it's cost-effective. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"The subscription fees are primarily tailored to larger enterprises, potentially leaving smaller and medium-sized customers with limited options."
"You are charged based on how much you use the solution."
"I think the solution was free initially."
"I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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Company Size

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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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