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Azure Monitor vs Google Cloud Monitoring

Azure Monitor

azure.microsoft.com

Google Cloud Monitoring

cloud.google.com

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FigureAzure MonitorGoogle Cloud Monitoring
Price from—$0.06/mo
Free plan——
Free trialYesYes
Open source——
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Plans published15
Spec score · Cloud Monitoring8.3 (#7)8.3 (#8)
Spec score · Infrastructure Monitoring8.4 (#8)8.3 (#10)
Spec score · Kubernetes Monitoring8.3 (#13)8.2 (#20)
Spec score · Metrics Monitoring Tools8.3 (#9)8.3 (#10)
HeadquartersRedmond, Washington, USAMountain View, California, United States
PurposeAzure Monitor collects, analyzes, and helps users respond to monitoring data from cloud and on-premises environments.Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure.

Plans

Azure Monitor

  • Pay-As-You-GoPrice not published

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Google Cloud Monitoring

  • Managed Service for Prometheus metrics$0.06 a month
  • Pay-as-you-go Cloud Monitoring$0.26 a month
  • Uptime check executions$0.30 a month
  • Monitoring API read calls$0.50 a month
  • Synthetic monitor executions$1.20 a month

Google Cloud Monitoring pricing →

In their own words

Azure Monitor

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Google Cloud Monitoring

Google Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure. It automatically collects metrics for Google Cloud services and also supports hybrid and multicloud environments. The service brings together metrics, uptime checks, dashboards, and alerts; users can build custom dashboards and multi-condition alert policies. Service-level objectives can be inferred automatically or defined by users, with alerts for violations. Script-based synthetic monitors test web applications and APIs. For Kubernetes, Managed Service for Prometheus handles managed or self-deployed metric collection. On supported Linux and Windows virtual machines, the Ops Agent collects logs and metrics and includes third-party application integrations. Alerts can be sent through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, SMS, webhooks, or the Cloud Mobile App. Cloud Monitoring API v3 offers programmatic access to metrics scopes, dashboards, and alerting policies. It runs in the cloud and lists API, Linux, web, and Windows platforms. Pricing is usage-based, with free monthly allotments on several meters; charges can depend on ingested data, time series returned, and check executions.

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