What is Microsoft Azure Monitor?
Collect, analyse and act on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps you maximise performance and availability of your applications and proactively identify problems in seconds.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Azure Monitor?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
- Helps Innovate
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Enterprise Cloud Platform Support
Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment
Transaction Request Performance
Scalability
Application Logging
Server Monitoring
Non-Commodity Operating Systems
Automated Diagnostics
Application Metric Reporting
Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)
Domain-Centric AI/ML
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of IT Administration
Breadth of Features
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Microsoft Azure Monitor Reviews
Ali S.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Powerful and Integrated, Yet Complexity Can Be Dau
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?
Azure offers a broad spectrum of cloud services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, catering to various needs like computing, analytics, storage, and AI.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The integration with existing Microsoft products is highly beneficial, especially for organizations already using the Microsoft suite. This integration simplifies processes, enhances productivity, and ensures consistency across applications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The complexity of the platform can be a significant hurdle. Azure's vast array of services and configurations, while powerful, can be daunting for beginners or smaller teams without dedicated IT support.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Before diving in, assess your specific cloud requirements to identify which Azure services are most relevant to your needs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Inspires Innovation
- Client's Interest First
- Transparent
Gaurang J.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2025
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Cons
- Vendor Friendly Policies
Ndianaobong B.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2025
“Powerful and Scalable, but Cumbersome.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Monitor from other similar products?
Microsoft Azure Monitor shines with its deep integration, unified observability, and intelligent automation, setting it apart from many competing tools.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The powerful real-time monitoring and analytical depth in Log Analytics and Application Insights deliver unmatched visibility into performance issues and application behavior
What do you dislike most about this product?
Azure Monitor’s fragmented and overly complex interface with multiple agents, portals, and disjointed alerting makes setup and everyday use overwhelming and unintuitive, especially for non-experts.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Define monitoring goals aligned with business KPIs, use dynamic metric thresholds and alert processing rules at scale, consolidate agents with the Azure Monitor Agent, structure your workspaces hierarchically, and automate alert responses through Logic Apps or Azure Automation for proactive, cost-effective observability.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
