We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, Azure Monitor is the preferred choice when compared to Instana Dynamic APM. Users appreciate the wide range of valuable features offered by Azure Monitor, including integration with Visual Studio, Power BI, and other Microsoft technologies. They also find Azure Monitor to have robust monitoring abilities, easy data export, and out-of-the-box functionality.
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"Technical support is helpful."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"It is a stable solution."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"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."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry and Prometheus, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic Observability and Prometheus. See our Azure Monitor vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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