Azure Monitor vs Stackify comparison

Microsoft and Stackify are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Microsoft is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.7, while Stackify is ranked #62. Microsoft holds a 2.0% mindshare in APM, compared to Stackify’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 71% of Stackify users who would recommend it.

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71% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Stackify and Azure Monitor are competing products used for monitoring applications. Stackify is noted for its competitive pricing and better support, while Azure Monitor is favored for its robust feature set despite its higher cost.

Features: Stackify includes code-level insights, error tracking, and performance monitoring. Azure Monitor offers extensive integration with other Azure services, real-time analytics, and application insights.

Room for Improvement: Stackify could improve its configuration process, enhance reporting capabilities, and offer better integration options. Azure Monitor would benefit from improved alerting mechanisms, a simpler pricing model, and more customizable dashboards.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Stackify is praised for straightforward deployment and responsive customer support. Azure Monitor's complex deployment is balanced by its scalability, although its customer service, while efficient, lacks personalization.

Pricing and ROI: Stackify is affordable with quick ROI, making it suitable for smaller businesses. Azure Monitor, though costlier, provides substantial ROI due to its extensive features and integration, appealing to larger enterprises.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

13th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Monitoring Software (8th)

Stackify

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

62nd

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (68th), Log Management (58th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Azure Monitor is 2.0%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Stackify is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Azure Monitor	2.0%
Stackify	0.7%
Other	97.3%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Andy Rabern

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.

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Idoko Emmanuel

Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has good filtering and rating features and helps with resource and load management

I've not used Stackify for a while, and I'm currently using a solution now that's not as good as Stackify. Among the solutions I've been using so far, Stackify has been one of the best for me, but there's always room for improvement. For example, I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to get the log from Stackify, sometimes it doesn't appear in real-time. It takes a few minutes before the logs appear. When I redeploy my solution and the application starts, I don't see the logs immediately, and it would take two to three minutes before I see the logs. I don't know if other customers have a similar experience. It's the wait time for the logs to appear that's a concern for me, could be improved, and is what the Stackify team should be looking into. In terms of any additional feature that I'd like added to the solution, I'm not sure if Stackify has a way to export logs out. I've been trying to do it. On the solution, you can click on a spiral-like icon and it shows you the entire error, and I'd prefer an export button that would let me download the error and save that into a text file, for example, so it'll be available on my local machine for me to reference it, especially because the log keeps going and as you're using the solution, the system keeps pushing messages on to Stackify, so if I'm looking at a particular error at 12:05 PM, for example, by the time I go back to my system and would like to revisit the error at 12:25 PM, on Stackify, the logs would have gone past that level and I won't see it again which makes it difficult. When you now go back to that timestamp, you don't tend to see it immediately, but if the solution had an export feature for me to save that particular error information on my local machine for reference at a later time, I won't have to go back to Stackify. I just go to that log, specifically to that particular export that I've received on my local machine. I can get it and review it, and it would be easier that way versus me going back to Stackify to find that particular error and request that particular information.

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

Pros

"Azure Monitor is a monitoring solution that you should not miss out on the second you move workflows, solutions, infrastructure, and much more onto the cloud."

"I can conclude reports for the monthly, weekly, and peak time of the resources."

"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."

"The ease of access in Azure is significant since it's native to the platform and easy to integrate."

"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."

"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."

"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."

"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."

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"What stood out to us were the metrics and granular details we received."

"We switched from New Relic and Loggly as it provides us more info at a lower price."

"The performance dashboard and the accurate level of details are beneficial."

"My advice to anyone who wants to use Stackify is to go for it because my experience with it is good."

"The deployment is very fast."

"The filter feature on Stackify is one of the features I found valuable. It's awesome. When I want to get the application logs, the solution gives me many filters. For example, if I want to get logs from my test environment, the option is there for me to select the environment from Stackify, and you can also select the particular application, and you'll see the information you need there. The filter feature alone and the fact that Stackify offers a lot of different filters is what I like the most about the solution because I've used other tools with the filter feature, but the filtering was very difficult, versus Stackify that has good filtering. On Stackify, you can filter the information by the last one hour, or the last four hours, and you can also select the date range and specify the timestamp, then the solution will give you the information based on the date range you specified. Another feature I found valuable on Stackify is its rating feature because it tells you how your application is faring. For example, a rating of A means excellent, while a rating of F means very bad, or that your application is not doing well at all. The ratings are from A to F. I also like that Stackify helps you in terms of load management because the solution gives you information on overutilized resources. These are the most valuable features of the solution."

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"It is very simple and very easy to configure."

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Cons

"The cost skyrockets once you start using it, and there are complaints that the actual cost of the Kubernetes cluster was less than the cost they were incurring for Azure Monitor."

"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."

"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."

"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."

"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."

"What I feel is when I open a screen of Azure, some places are very complex to navigate to. It is not very user-friendly when it comes to accessing certain sections."

"Azure Monitor could improve by adding capabilities for data observability and integrating more tightly with their data platform components."

"There are a lot of things that take more time to do, such as charting, alerting, and correlation of data, and things like that."

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"Better mobile support."

"When I redeploy my solution and the application starts, I don't see the logs immediately, and it would take two to three minutes before I see the logs."

"I'm looking to see more performance tools, but heard that they are going to release some."

"Another improvement would be the agent memory utilization, which led to our recent reevaluation."

"I would like to be able to see metrics about individual running containers on the host machines."

"I've not used Stackify for a while, and I'm currently using a solution now that's not as good as Stackify. Among the solutions I've been using so far, Stackify has been one of the best for me, but there's always room for improvement. For example, I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to get the log from Stackify, sometimes it doesn't appear in real-time. It takes a few minutes before the logs appear. When I redeploy my solution and the application starts, I don't see the logs immediately, and it would take two to three minutes before I see the logs. I don't know if other customers have a similar experience. It's the wait time for the logs to appear that's a concern for me, could be improved, and is what the Stackify team should be looking into. In terms of any additional feature that I'd like added to the solution, I'm not sure if Stackify has a way to export logs out. I've been trying to do it. On the solution, you can click on a spiral-like icon and it shows you the entire error, and I'd prefer an export button that would let me download the error and save that into a text file, for example, so it'll be available on my local machine for me to reference it, especially because the log keeps going and as you're using the solution, the system keeps pushing messages on to Stackify, so if I'm looking at a particular error at 12:05 PM, for example, by the time I go back to my system and would like to revisit the error at 12:25 PM, on Stackify, the logs would have gone past that level and I won't see it again which makes it difficult. When you now go back to that timestamp, you don't tend to see it immediately, but if the solution had an export feature for me to save that particular error information on my local machine for reference at a later time, I won't have to go back to Stackify. I just go to that log, specifically to that particular export that I've received on my local machine. I can get it and review it, and it would be easier that way versus me going back to Stackify to find that particular error and request that particular information."

"It's not easy to set up. It's hard especially for juniors to understand."

"The search feature could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is expensive."

"The licensing is a monthly fee."

"The solution is very costly because you have to pay for various things such as adding to logs and internet alerts."

"My company is okay with the current pricing of the solution."

"The tool's pricing is very good. I could say that Microsoft offers different cost models, which are listed on the product's website."

"Azure Monitor is a low-priced solution, which is why it would work best on small-scale projects."

"The solution is a pay-as-you-go consumption service and is the least expensive in the market."

"Azure Monitor is cheaper compared to other third-party monitoring tools."

More Azure Monitor pricing and cost advice

"The price is variable. It depends on how much data we have received in that particular month. Usually, it goes up to $2,000, or, at times, $3,000 USD per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

21%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Outsourcing Company

Media Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	29

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

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Overview

Azure Monitor delivers comprehensive monitoring across applications and cloud resources, integrating seamlessly with Azure services to enhance performance tracking and telemetry analysis.

Azure Monitor extends monitoring capabilities for applications, infrastructure, and security, featuring easy integration with Azure and third-party tools. It supports dynamic alerting and telemetry, offering log analytics and metrics gathering. Users benefit from its alert system and intuitive dashboards, making it a preferred choice for multi-cloud and infrastructure monitoring across diverse IT environments. While users seek improved query building and interface navigation, they appreciate its scalability and cost-effectiveness.

What key features does Azure Monitor offer?

Integration with Visual Studio: Enhances debugging and monitoring for developers.
Dynamic Alerting: Provides real-time notifications for critical conditions.
Telemetry Capabilities: Advanced data collection to analyze and optimize application performance.
Logging and Metrics Gathering: Offers detailed insights for better resource management.
Custom Queries and Log Analytics: Facilitates in-depth data exploration and analysis.

What benefits do users experience with Azure Monitor?

Ease of Integration: Streamlines operations across Azure and third-party services.
Scalability: Adapts to growing monitoring needs efficiently.
Cost-Effectiveness: Balances cost with enhanced performance visibility.
Reporting Features: Provides comprehensive reports to improve operational efficiency.
Multi-Cloud Support: Extends monitoring capabilities across different cloud environments.

Azure Monitor sees widespread use for infrastructure and application monitoring across industries. Companies rely on it for performance tracking and incident management, often integrating it with Application Insights for enriched data analysis. Organizations use it to monitor servers and cloud services, utilizing its capabilities in DevOps practices and during cloud transformation processes for analyzing database metrics and ensuring efficient application functioning.

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Stackify enhances application performance monitoring with features like detailed logging and effective filtering options, integrating capabilities to eliminate the need for multiple tools, and providing rapid deployment and stable performance.

Stackify offers a comprehensive solution for business insight through custom dashboards, error monitoring, load management, and application scoring. Its ability to visualize performance by creating responsive dashboards helps connect business and technical teams. Despite its strengths, users seek improvements such as better mobile support, real-time log appearance, and Docker documentation. Enhanced Linux support and agent memory optimization are also desired, along with better visibility into container and application performance metrics. Integrating more plugins and options would make Stackify a more robust monitoring tool.

What are the key features of Stackify?

Detailed Log and Error Data: Provides in-depth traces and logs for error and data analysis.
Custom Dashboards: Offers business insights and application scoring through tailored dashboards.
Performance Metrics: Monitors application and server performance effectively.
Simple Configuration: Ensures easier setup and deployment without complexities.
Filtering Options: Enables effective management of logs and errors through filters.

What benefits should be expected from using Stackify?

Improved Performance Monitoring: Provides tools to identify root causes and enhance application and server monitoring.
Resource Management: Manages server utilization and handles resource spikes efficiently.
Proactive Alerts: Allows setting up alerts across platforms like AWS and Docker.
Log Aggregation: Compiles logs for testing and analysis to improve system performance.

Organizations across industries use Stackify for extensive application performance monitoring, particularly in testing environments. It is crucial for analyzing database calls, third-party requests, and aggregating logs. Its capabilities in monitoring across AWS and Docker environments make it especially valuable for dynamic and distributed infrastructures.

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