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Monitoring & Observability: AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud

Every monitoring & observability capability, with its name on each cloud. Click a row for the full comparison and differences.

Capability	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud	Match
Metrics, alarms & dashboards	Amazon CloudWatch	Azure Monitor	Cloud Monitoring	Exact
Centralised logging	Amazon CloudWatch Logs	Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics)	Cloud Logging	Exact
APM & distributed tracing	AWS X-Ray CloudWatch Application Signals	Application Insights	Cloud Trace	Close
Managed Prometheus	Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus	Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus	Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus	Exact
Managed Grafana	Amazon Managed Grafana	Azure Managed Grafana	No direct equivalent	Partial
Synthetic / uptime monitoring	CloudWatch Synthetics	Application Insights availability tests	Cloud Monitoring uptime checks	Exact
Real user monitoring	CloudWatch RUM	Application Insights (browser SDK)	No direct equivalent	Partial

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