Azure Monitor vs. IntelliMagic Vision for SAN

We were able to get a single pane of glass for all our monitoring needs on Azure Monitor. However, we would like to see it improve to auto scale out and scale in depending on the load without human intervention. This can help us get to the No Ops model and rely on automated processes rather than manual intervention.

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One of our SAN switches was experiencing high utilization and we were able to determine which slot and port on the switch was the problem using Intellimagic's reporting feature showing the top x utilization ports. IntelliMagic Vision for SAN reporting provided granular level data making it easy to work on the problem at hand.

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• It supports all the Azure PAAS services.
• Can monitor both infrastructure and application

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• Performance metrics for multiple vendors and equipment models
• Stability and reliability of the system
• Ease of report creation

• Custom metrics
• Ease of use

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• I have not come across any

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I have not had to work with Azure Monitor support, so it is difficult to say how well the support team is. I assume that Azure has a well-versed team on the customer service side to assist with any issues customers may have. I may need them in the feature.

Incentivized

While other tools have their own unique capability, Azure Monitor helps us monitor essential PAAS services that are not supported by other tools. So even though we have one other APM tool, we still rely on Azure Monitor for some of the special PAAS services, this is a huge advantage.

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Broadcom SANnav is being used as well but it has a different scope of features

• We are able to react quickly to the issues.
• Debugging sessions are yielding quicker results to generate RCA.

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• Eliminated multiple reporting sources and consolidated to one