3rd Party ISV Tools for Windows Azure Application Monitoring and Load Testing

Here are a list of products, in no particular order, which will help improve the quality of end user experience for Azure hosted applications. This list is an organic aggregation of tribal knowledge and is not a definitive one.

If you have any suggestions, please feel free to send it to me through comments.

Application Availability Management

• Azure Watch by Paraleap Technologies
• Azure Check from from Apica Systems
• Azureops from Opstera
• Spotlight from Quest Software

Application Performance Management (APM)

• Gomez from Compuware
• Dynatrace APM for Windows Azure from Dynatrace

Application Load testing

• Gomez Web Load Testing from Compuware
• Loadstorm from Loadstorm.com
• CloudTest from Soasta
• Visual Studio Ultimate Stress Testing from Microsoft
• HP LoadRunner from Hewlett Packard.

-Hanu

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Comments

• Anonymous
  April 12, 2012
  Blitz is a great tool too: http://blitz.io/ Incidentally, it comes as an add-on if you're running on AppHarbor: appharbor.com/.../blitz

• Anonymous
  April 12, 2012
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2012
  There is a new group specifically oriented towards operations and getting ready to GoLive on Azure www.linkedin.com/groups Please join and have productive discussions