Find out why Site24x7 is a better alternative to Azure Monitor

Learn how Site24x7 can be a better alternative for monitoring your Azure cloud infrastructure, with additional monitoring and troubleshooting support for servers, applications, websites, logs, and network devices.

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Database Monitoring

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Why choose Site24x7

Strong core features backed with AIOps

Cut down on silos and monitor your entire IT environment from end to end with Site24x7's capabilities. With features like anomaly detection, instant alerts, forecasts, automation, and intelligent reports, Site24x7 ensures your services are ready and available for your customers and that you have a fail-proof plan to mitigate downtime. Save your IT team time and manual effort by configuring automatic incident remediation using IT automation.

Seamless cloud and Microsoft application oversight

Obtain a resilient monitoring solution that remains operational even during public cloud outages, as it does not rely on public cloud infrastructure. Enable unified monitoring across multi-cloud environments—AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI—while also offering comprehensive support for Microsoft applications like Exchange, IIS, SQL, SharePoint, Office 365, and more, across both on-premises and cloud setups.

On-the-go monitoring using Android and iOS devices

You can receive instant alerts and stay informed about your IT environment effortlessly from anywhere, anytime, through Android and iOS mobile apps. The user-friendly mobile, tablet, and TV apps let you access dashboards, monitor reports, and quickly troubleshoot issues.

Complete observability in minutes

Our comprehensive observability tool caters to your neo-observable needs by collating and visualizing all your metrics, traces, and logs in a holistic view. You can also strategize and optimize your infrastructure better without compromising on your organization's goals. Level up your infrastructure operations with just a few clicks. Site24x7 is extremely user-friendly; you'll be all set in just a minute!

Multi-tenant offering for MSPs and CSPs

Monitor multiple customer environments with a separate pricing pack and a set of features tailored for managed service providers and cloud service providers. Site24x7 offers remote monitoring and management for various customer accounts, enabling secure management of accounts and support for their capabilities and endpoints from a single platform. Promote with a customized logo, URL, and leverage individual operational roles to monitor customer accounts.

One-stop shop for your IT monitoring needs

As part of ManageEngine's comprehensive suite of IT management products, Site24x7 serves as a centralized hub for various IT management needs, including IT service management, unified endpoint management, and security information and event management. Furthermore, being a division of Zoho, ManageEngine's Site24x7 is committed to continuous research and development and a customer-centric approach.

Site24x7 vs Azure Monitor

Services Offered Site24x7 Azure Monitor
Multi-cloud Monitoring
Azure Monitoring yes yes
Bulk-Onboarding Model yes yes
Uptime Monitoring yes yes
120+ Supported Azure Services yes yes
Dimension Metrics based Alerting yes yes
Derived Metrics yes
(Out-of-the-box insights apart from Azure's native metrics)
yes
Log-based Derived Metrics yes no
Service Quota Monitoring and Alerting yes
(Advanced insights across subscriptions and scheduled reports)
yes
(Limited)
Azure Key Vault Monitoring yes
(Comprehensive insights)
yes
(Limited in expiry alerting)
Advanced SQL Monitoring for AzureSQL yes yes
(Limited)
Single Pane Visibility yes
(With inventory, services, and infrastructure visualization)
no
Service/Resource Dependency Maps yes yes
Recovery Service Vault yes yes
Support for IaaC and Configuration Management tools yes yes
Application Performance Monitoring Agent yes yes
(Limited)
Azure Server Monitoring Agent yes yes
(Limited)
Azure Kubernetes Monitoring Agent yes yes
(Limited)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) yes yes
Partially supported
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) yes yes
Partially supported
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring (OCI) yes no
Cloud Cost Mangement
Consolidated Bill Reports yes yes
Cost Grouping yes yes
Forecasts using Historical Spending yes yes
Business-unit-level Spending Breakdowns yes yes
Multi-Cloud and Kubernetes Cost Management yes yes
(Limited to Azure's environment)
Custom Reports and Dashboards yes no
Mobile application for CloudSpend yes no
Other Monitoring Attributes
Server Monitoring yes
(In-depth performance insights into database instances)
yes
Database Monitoring yes yes
(Limited to Azure's environment)
Microsoft Applications Monitoring yes yes
Virtualization Monitoring yes yes
Container Monitoring yes
(Supports Kubernetes, Docker, and Redhat OpenShift)
yes
(Comprehensive Kubernetes support)
Network Monitoring yes yes
(Limited to monitoring basic network components)
Network Configuration Management yes yes
(Limited to diagnostics and virtual network management)
Network Traffic (NetFlow) Monitoring yes yes
(Partially, lacks native NetFlow support)
Digital Experience Monitoring yes yes
(Limited DEM capabilities)
Application Performance Monitoring yes yes
For MSPs and CSPs
Multi-tenancy yes yes
White Labeling yes no
Single Invoice yes no
Data Isolation between Customers yes yes
Business Units to administer individual monitoring accounts based on business application, geography, type, and resource ownership yes no
Dashboards
Service View Dashboard yes no
Inventory Dashboard yes yes
Infrastructure Dashboard yes no
Business View Dashboard yes no
Custom Dashboard yes yes
Reports
SLA Report yes yes
(Custom)
Scheduled Report yes yes
SLA Management yes yes
Schedule Maintanence yes yes
Availability Report with Business Hours yes no
Performance Reports yes yes
Platform features
AI-based Dynamic Thresholds yes yes
IT Automation yes yes
Grouping of Resources by Business Service (Monitor Groups) yes no
Multi-User Login yes yes
On-Call Scheduling yes no
API Integration that allows you to integrate with your own portal yes yes
Incident Management
Voice Call, SMS, Mails, Browser Push Notifications and Mobile Apps yes yes
Alarm Management yes yes
Third-party Integration for alerts yes yes
Email, Chat, and Phone Support yes yes
Public Status Pages yes yes
(Limited to Azure's environment)
AIOps
Anomaly Detection yes yes
Dynamic Thresholds yes yes
Forecasting yes yes
Outlier Detection in Capacity Planning yes yes
Pricing
Per Azure resource cost $1.00 Variable based on the metrics. $0.258/MB: 150-1,00,000 MB $0.151/MB: 1,00,000-2,50,000 MB $0.061/MB: above 2,50,000 MB
Health Monitor Included $0.10 per monitored metric time-series per month
Log $0.30/ GB of logs for 7 days of retention 15-min interval (or greater):   $0.50   per log monitored per month 10-min interval: $1 per log monitored per month 5-min interval: $1.50 per log monitored per month
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This is what some of our customers have to say:

Site24x7 gives us visibility into end user UI experience from global locations which is critical for our business. The instant alerting capabilities keep us on top of issues and helps us minimize end user impact. Thanks for the great service.

Sarah Kulp

Director of software operations at Informz

I wanted a new feature in Site24x7 APM Insight and guess what? Its done. I was not used to working with companies that actually deliver what they say they would, but Site24x7 is different! A big thanks for putting customers first.

Kieren Dowding

CTO, Your Phones Covered

We use Site24x7 to alert us to slow servers as well as outages of the server. We are aware of server issues before the client is aware of it – which is invaluable to building a strong client relationship. I have not seen anything else that gives us the breadth of monitoring points that we need. Site24x7 gives us great insight.

Rick Pearson

Director at The Ripe Group

Site24x7 gives us deep visibility into critical performance parameters of our resources and helps us stay on top of issues. The all-in-one dashboard gives us one console visibility without the need of shifting to multiple monitoring devices to get complete insights. Ease of use and affordable pricing are factors that impressed me about Site24x7.

Oleksii Holovko

CISO, Revenue Grid

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