Azure Monitor vs. Virtana Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Monitor
Score 5.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Monitor is designed to analyze and optimize the performance of web applications and infrastructure, including virtual machines (VMs), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Storage, and databases. Monitor Linux and Windows VMs and their health and dependencies—all on a single map.
$2.76
pay as you go per GB
Virtana Platform
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Virtana delivers enterprise-grade deep hybrid infrastructure observability, enabling organizations to achieve visibility and control across their entire IT estate. The platform unifies monitoring of on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments, to transform complex infrastructure management into a strategic advantage. Core Platform Capabilities Deep Infrastructure Observability: · Automated topology discovery and mapping · Real…
$5
per month per device
Pricing
Azure MonitorVirtana Platform
Editions & Modules
Pay-As-You-Go
$2.76
per GB
100 GB per day
$219.5
2 per day
200 GB per day
$412.1
6 per day
300 GB per day
$604.8
0 per day
400 GB per day
$788.4
8 per day
500 GB per day
$968.8
0 per day
600 GB per day
$1,904
per day
700 GB per day
$3,718
40 per day
800 GB per day
$9,016
per day
Free
$0
Pro
$5
per month per device
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure MonitorVirtana Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsVolume discounts are available (600+ devices / month) A device is any running AWS EC2 or Azure VM evaluated by Virtana Optimize in a given month
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Azure MonitorVirtana Platform
Best Alternatives
Azure MonitorVirtana Platform
Small Businesses
Veeam ONE
Veeam ONE
Score 8.6 out of 10
InfluxDB
InfluxDB
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Icinga
Icinga
Score 8.6 out of 10
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
ScienceLogic SL1
ScienceLogic SL1
Score 8.9 out of 10
NetBrain Technologies
NetBrain Technologies
Score 9.2 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Azure MonitorVirtana Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(2 ratings)
8.8
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
6.7
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure MonitorVirtana Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
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.
Read full review
Virtana
Overall I would say that we have been very happy with Zenoss. It has been a great server monitoring tool. There are certain aspects that we would like to expand into, such as Capacity Planning, Network Performance Monitoring, and log analysis. We have coupled Zenoss logs with Splunk for external log management, but would like to start using some of the built-in analysis tools.
Read full review
Pros
Microsoft
  • It supports all the Azure PAAS services.
  • Can monitor both infrastructure and application
Read full review
Virtana
  • Monitoring Windows, Unix/Linux, Infra apps, storage, virtualization, converge infra etc..
  • Integrate with other monitoring tools and receive events for aggregation and correlation
  • Integration with ITSM( SNOW) for auto ticket creation
Read full review
Cons
Microsoft
  • Custom metrics
  • Ease of use
Read full review
Virtana
  • It can be tricky to set-up depending on what you want to do.
  • They have their own proprietary way of visualizing metrics, which is clever but does have a slight learning curve.
Read full review
Support Rating
Microsoft
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.
Read full review
Virtana
Anytime we've had issues they have been very responsive and professional.
Read full review
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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.
Read full review
Virtana
We strongly prefer Metricly for AWS Cost Analysis -- whereas other tools are easier to use on a traditional monitoring basis. To be clear, Merticly's monitoring tools are GREAT, but they require tuning and manual setup that we didn't have the time for on a small Platform Operations team. We have worked closely with Metricly to expand on their cost analysis capabilities, and plan to use them going forward.
Read full review
Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • We are able to react quickly to the issues.
  • Debugging sessions are yielding quicker results to generate RCA.
Read full review
Virtana
  • We're a reseller/Integrator, so this question has a somewhat different meaning to our business. For us, Zenoss Cloud allows us to provide a single Cloud-based monitoring platform that can address virtually all our clients' use cases, dramatically simplifying our training and staffing requirements. Instead of training Engineers on several platforms, including the installation of physical hardware/software, we can focus on a single platform.
  • The faster time-to-deployment and always-on cloud platform is a great fit for DevOps environments and newer software-defined data center platforms. The ability of Zenoss to support these environments solves what has been a major blind spot, slowing adoption of platforms that have been difficult to effectively manage with legacy monitoring platforms.
  • For clients, the ability to consolidate from multiple prem-based tools to a single cloud-based platform is huge. Eliminating multiple licenses and ongoing hardware & administration costs can show a 1-2 year ROI.
Read full review
ScreenShots