We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, New Relic and others in Cloud Monitoring Software."Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"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."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The network visualization helps us to drill down deeper."
"The solution is scalable."
"The fact that I can use custom MIB files to customize my sensors for the things that are not there as a default is a good feature."
"The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback."
"There is a simplicity to setting up the extra sensors. It's really easy for us to build infrastructure and start monitoring very quickly."
"The real-time monitoring feature in PRTG is invaluable to me"
"Its proactiveness is its most valuable feature. We already know when we come in, in the morning, if a server or site is down, as opposed to someone telling us."
"Stable and scalable network monitoring tool. Installation is simple and straightforward."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"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?)."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"PRTG Network Monitor is okay to use, but you'll need some time to analyze the data. If it can automatically locate or identify the problem area, it would be more helpful to users."
"In terms of sensors and probes, it would be really cool if PRTG had a purely Azure-based solution. We had to install a probe on one of our cloud servers and then let that probe out from there. It would be really cool if it just monitored Azure without having to install something on the device."
"When using PRTG Network Monitor it is beneficial if you have prior experience with it, the user interface could improve."
"There seems to be a big jump from the basic scan to the really thorough scan. There is a big jump in the quantity of sensors it uses for certain things. One minute you might get ten and then the next you get 200. There seems to be a big jump between the two at times."
"Mostly, this software has sensors for devices to monitor specs and you can build or develop or modify various sensors, according to your company's needs. But you may need to do that with coding or plugins or with the support of Paessler AG, the manufacturer."
"A room for improvement in PRTG Network Monitor is its sensors. Its application technology sensor, such as the IAS, .NET, etc., needs some improvement because it doesn't work as expected. For example, the IAS sensor doesn't give immediate information, and the information you get from it isn't of good value. The web GUI of PRTG Network Monitor also needs improvement because errors keep popping up if it's not been updated to the latest version. What I'd like to see in the next release of the tool is end-to-end topology mapping for the business model, and that should be required. There has to be a technical map. Technical mapping and topological creation are missing in PRTG Network Monitor, so I would like to see those in the future."
"There is room for improvement in this solution for the performance and third-party monitoring protocols. They need to be updated to the latest ones."
"The inventory of the device should be improved."
Azure Monitor is ranked 5th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 7th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. 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 PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager.
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Hi to all. On my view, the PRTG would be the better decisionт as external independent solution. In addition, based on my own experience, PRTG is a more flexible tool that can be quickly configured for any task
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