🆚 Akamai mPulse vs. Azure Monitor

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Akamai mPulse is twice as popular as Azure Monitor.
🌍 Akamai mPulse is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
🌎 Azure Monitor is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

Akamai mPulse

Azure Monitor

Type

Application monitoring tool

About

Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that enables companies to understand their website experience from the users' perspective.

Azure Monitor is a solution that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from various resources, including Windows Servers and VMs.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,159

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free version ❌

On request

Free tier ✔️First 5 GB of analytics logs with 30-31 days of retention + platform metrics ingestion + 1M metric queries per month

Ingested logsAuxiliary$0.10/GB
Basic$0.50/GB
Analytics$2.30/GB

Querying Basic or Auxiliary Logs$0.005 per GB of data scanned

Custom metrics ingestion$0.16/10M samples ingested

Platform and custom metric queries beyond the free 1M$0.01/1K API calls

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai mPulse application monitoring tool is 2.4 times more popular than Azure Monitor.

Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Akamai mPulse is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, while Azure Monitor is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

Indonesia

India

Germany

Netherlands

Sweden

Japan

Awards

🥇 Most popular in India in the Application Monitoring category.
🥇 Most popular in China in the Application Monitoring category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Application Monitoring category.
🥇 Most popular in Egypt in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the Application Monitoring category.

🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in Finland in the Application Monitoring category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai mPulse is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Azure Monitor is more commonly used on business, finance and banking, and health sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Finance/Banking

Travel

Health

Public Information

Education/Reference

Government/Military