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Azure Monitor vs Chronosphere Application Observability

Azure Monitor

azure.microsoft.com

Chronosphere Application Observability

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FigureAzure MonitorChronosphere Application Observability
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trialYesYes
Open source——
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Plans published14
Spec score · Cloud Monitoring8.3 (#7)8.9 (#5)
Spec score · Kubernetes Monitoring8.3 (#13)9.0 (#4)
Spec score · Metrics Monitoring Tools8.3 (#9)9.0 (#4)
Spec score · Application Performance Monitoring8.3 (#12)9.0 (#2)
Founded19752019
HeadquartersRedmond, Washington, USANew York, New York, United States
PurposeAzure Monitor collects, analyzes, and helps users respond to monitoring data from cloud and on-premises environments.Chronosphere provides observability for cloud-native applications and microservices to help teams detect and resolve issues.

Plans

Azure Monitor

  • Pay-As-You-GoPrice not published

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Chronosphere Application Observability

  • Chronosphere pilotFree
  • PilotFree
  • Chronosphere Observability PlatformPriced on request
  • Custom enterprise subscriptionPriced on request

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Azure Monitor

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Chronosphere Application Observability

Chronosphere Application Observability is a cloud service for helping teams find and resolve problems in cloud-native applications and microservices. Chronosphere Lens creates service views aligned with an application’s architecture. Teams can use RED metrics and service-level objectives to understand performance and service dependencies, while metrics, logs, traces, and events are correlated with system changes and their effects. Distributed tracing maps request paths across components to help locate latency and inter-service communication issues. Dynamic trace sampling is offered to balance observability insight with cost. The service accepts open telemetry formats including Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Listed alerting connections include Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, VictorOps, email, and a general-purpose webhook. Pricing for the Observability Platform is based on useful data retained and customized for each organization; no price is listed. Pilots are typically free and average 2–3 weeks, though large-scale or long-term pilots may be paid. A free trial is offered, but there is no free plan. Customer support includes year-round, 24/7 communication through Slack, Zendesk, or email, with optional office hours and calls.

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