AzureWatch was originally developed in 2010 as a tool to provide auto-scaling support to Windows Azure, which was just coming out of beta. Over the years, we adjusted and adopted AzureWatch to meet demands of our customers. Many needs were addressed with great success, but some turned out to be more difficult to satisfy.
In summer 2014, the queue of requests for features within AzureWatch was full of issues that were simply impossible to implement within AzureWatch architecture. Therefore we decided to re-architect and re-brand AzureWatch as a new cloud monitoring and automation platform.
Going forward, all the new features will be added to CloudMonix platform. AzureWatch is expected to be retired in April of 2017.
Here is a side-by-side comparison table of existing features support by both products as of January 1st, 2017. For details as to specific features of the product please refer to “CloudMonix vs Azure Portal” article.
Product Features |
CloudMonix |
AzureWatch |
|
Data Affinity |
Yes Supports storing customer data in three regions, can be expanded into others |
No |
Multiple Dashboards |
Yes |
No |
Historical Dashboards |
Yes View full dashboard "as of", up to 1 year ago |
No |
Performance Reports |
Yes |
Yes |
Uptime Reports |
Yes |
No |
Utilization Reports |
Yes |
No |
Alert and Action Reports |
Yes |
No |
Large Accounts |
Yes |
Yes, with workarounds Requires splitting of large accounts into smaller ones in order to handle monitoring correctly |
Manage User's Customers |
Yes Manage settings and monitoring for different customers separately while taking advantage of unified logins and volume pricing |
Little |
Multi User Support |
Yes With role-based permissions |
Yes No role-based permission |
SSO |
Yes
|
No |
API support |
Yes |
No |
|
Cost |
Starting at $15/mo per unit Offers two distinct plans that target users who need automation vs. those who do not. Has volume discounts |
Starting at $10/mo per unit Has volume discounts |
Notification (alert) Integrations | ||
Autotask |
Yes |
No |
Freshdesk/ |
Yes |
No |
Hipchat |
Yes |
No |
Loggly |
Yes |
No |
Logentries |
Yes |
No |
PagerDuty (alert aggregation) |
Yes |
No |
SMS Notifications (Twillio) |
Yes |
No |
Slack |
Yes |
No |
Webhooks |
Yes |
No |
Zapier |
Yes |
No |
Zendesk |
Yes |
No |
Monitoring (metrics) Integrations | ||
Nagios XI |
Yes |
No |
SQL Server/ |
Yes |
No |
Zabbix |
Yes |
No |
Azure Cloud Services | ||
Monitoring |
Yes |
Yes |
Auto-scaling |
Yes |
Yes |
Automation |
Yes |
Basic |
Azure Virtual Machines | ||
Monitoring |
Yes |
Yes, Windows only |
Auto-scaling |
Yes |
Yes, Windows only |
Automation |
Yes, Windows only |
Basic, Windows only |
Standalone Windows Servers | ||
Monitoring |
Yes |
No |
Automation |
Yes |
No |
Azure Automation | ||
Monitoring |
Yes |
No |
Automation |
Yes |
No |
SQL Azure | ||
Monitoring |
Yes |
Basic |
Automation |
Yes |
No |
Azure Storage | ||
Queues |
Yes Including data from Storage Analytics |
Yes, counts only |
File |
Yes Including data from Storage Analytics |
No |
Blob |
Yes Including data from Storage Analytics |
No |
Table |
Yes Including data from Storage Analytics |
No |
Azure Service Bus | ||
Queues |
Yes |
Yes, counts only |
Topics & Subscriptions |
Yes |
Yes, counts only |
Event Hubs |
Yes |
No |
Azure Web Apps (Websites) | ||
Monitoring |
Yes |
Yes |
Automation |
Yes |
No |
Auto-scaling |
Yes |
Yes |
WebJobs |
Yes |
No |
WebApps |
Yes |
No |
Azure Scheduler | ||
Monitor |
Yes |
No |
Other Azure Resources | ||
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|
No |
Other Stand-alone Products | ||
|
No |
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