Product Solutions Resources Partners Pricing Support Talk to an expert Get free trial Login GitLab vs Azure Monitor Decision Kit Summary Azure Monitor is a Microsoft tool for collecting and analyzing metrics from your cloud and on-premises environments. It provides insight on how applications are performing, and identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on. Data collected by Azure Monitor fits into one of two types: metrics and logs. Metrics are numerical values that describe some aspect of a system at a particular point in time. Logs contain different kinds of data organized into records, with different sets of properties for each type. GitLab has a powerful monitoring capability with Prometheus, a time-series monitoring service, providing a flexible platform for monitoring GitLab and other software products. GitLab provides out of the box monitoring with Prometheus, providing easy access to high quality time-series monitoring of GitLab services. GitLab has built-in monitoring that can automatically monitor your deployed applications, with extensive support for native cloud, container, and microservices technology. Additionally, Gitlab uses Jaeger, an open source end-to-end distributed tracing system used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems. Resources MS Azure Monitor Feature Comparison FEATURES Cloud Native Monitoring SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE The monitoring of cloud native applications including microservices that are built to run in the cloud so that bottlenecks and issues can be addressed via insights into collected metrics. Server Monitoring SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Reviewing and analyzing a server for availability, operations, performance, security and other operations-related processes. Monitor servers system resources like CPU Usage, Memory Consumption, I/O, Network, Disk Usage, Process, etc. GitLab uses the Node Exporter (via Prometheus) to expose an extensive set of machine-level metrics on Linux and other Unix systems such as CPU usage, memory, disk utilization, filesystem fullness, and network bandwidth. Tracing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Tracing provides insight into the performance and health of a deployed application, tracking each function or microservice which handles a given request. This makes it easy to understand the end-to-end flow of a request, regardless of whether you are using a monolithic or distributed system. Learn more about Tracing Twitter Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Why GitLab? Product Solutions Services DevOps tools Is it any good? Releases Pricing Get started Resources All resources All-Remote Blog Newsletter Events Webcasts Topics Training Docs Developer Portal Install Community Customers Contribute Community Programs Direction Technology Partners Channel Partners Open Source Partners GitLab for Open Source GitLab for Education GitLab for Startups Shop Community Forum Support Get help Contact Sales Contact Support Support options Status Customers Portal Company About What is GitLab? Jobs Culture Leadership Team Press Investor Relations Analysts Handbook Security Contact Terms Privacy Cookie Preferences Trademark Git is a trademark of Software Freedom Conservancy and our use of 'GitLab' is under license View page source — Edit in Web IDE — please contribute. © 2021 GitLab B.V. This website uses cookies We use cookies to make our websites and services operate correctly, to understand how visitors engage with us and to improve our product and marketing efforts. See our cookie policy for more information.Cookie Policy Cookies Settings Accept All Cookies