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Azure Monitor vs CA CEM [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (13th), Cloud Monitoring Software (8th)
CA CEM [EOL]
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Andy Rabern - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
Telemetry insights have improved how I track user behavior and application performance daily
I feel Azure Monitor does a fair job. I do feel it is not a streaming service in my opinion. There are advantages to having stream messaging and logging on that level. But for what it is, I feel it does well. My perspective is more based on an Application Insights agent running on a service or an app service and sending the telemetry via the agent, and also doing the filtering of telemetry at the agent level so you are not having a ton of telemetry. I believe Azure Monitor does pretty much the same thing. I have also used tools such as New Relic, and New Relic is a much more robust tool, but that is a different product and you are going to pay for that. It is a different offering altogether. The subscription that we had at the time allowed for a couple gigabytes of telemetry during the month, and I believe that telemetry only lives for about two months. You have to experiment with it to see how much you want to pay. I was not really involved in the pricing. It was more along the lines of we were running up against our limits in terms of the amount of free telemetry or telemetry that we get with our subscription, and so we either needed to scale back or turn specific telemetry types off or do some more sampling. It is nice that those capabilities are there so that you can reduce the amount of telemetry. I cannot really speak to pricing but I do believe that it is somewhat reasonable for Azure Monitor. New Relic is pretty expensive, I believe.
it_user305787 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It provides a powerful network analysis both with individual transactions and general network performance. We've had lots of hardware issues with the MPMs.
It provides a powerful network analysis both with individual transactions and general network performance We've found that it really helps managers in measuring application SLAs and viewing historical performance data. We've had lots of hardware issues with the MPMs. It's difficult to segregate…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's most valuable features are its ease of use and support for multiple environments"
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace; it's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure, and it is fairly good at that."
"It is a helpful tool and provides proactive information about the infrastructure."
"The product is stable."
"From a business standpoint, I think the ability to see where your users are is valuable."
"The product is very good for developers who want to integrate with Visual Studio."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"It provides a powerful network analysis both with individual transactions and general network performance."
 

Cons

"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"I feel Azure Monitor does a fair job. I do feel it is not a streaming service in my opinion."
"In our experience, technical support has been slow. We’ve been plagued with hardware issues, which have been on-going for a long time and which is going through CA to a separate partner, who then needs to deal with another local partner company for hardware."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Monitor's price is minimal to the point of being almost negligible."
"The solution is expensive, but it is worth the price."
"The solution’s pricing depends on how much logs it collects."
"It's a costly solution"
"The product offers a pay-as-you-go model to users. The charges are to be paid according to the usage of the product."
"The cost of Azure Monitor application performance should be less expensive."
"My company is okay with the current pricing of the solution."
"Its cost depends on the ingestion of the logs. It could go anywhere. For an out-of-the-box platform such as FrameFlow, you pay pretty much a fixed price and you get what you get, whereas, with something like Azure Monitor, you pay by the ingestion charge, so you can have one client who pays hardly anything for the same alerts, and another client pays loads and loads."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise29
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Questions from the Community

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