Azure Application Insights
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Sep 27, 2022
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Azure Application Insights
#5in Performance MonitoringWhat is Azure Application Insights?
It is an extensible Application Performance Management service for developers and DevOps professionals. Use it to monitor your live applications. It will automatically detect performance anomalies, and includes powerful analytics tools.
Azure Application Insights is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Extensible Application Performance Management (APM) serviceMonitor your live applicationsAutomatically detect performance anomalies
Azure Application Insights Pros & Cons
Pros of Azure Application Insights
- ✓Focus in detect performance anomalies and issues
- ✓Integrated with Azure
- ✓Availability tests (Heart Beat check)
- ✓Live Metrics
- ✓User flow
Cons of Azure Application Insights
- ✗Difficult to surface information
- ✗Custom instrumentation via code only
- ✗UI is clunky and gets in the way
Azure Application Insights Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Azure Application Insights?
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Datadog
Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!
OpenCensus
It is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metrics and distributed traces, then transfer the data to a backend of your choice in real time. This data can be analyzed by developers and admins to understand the health of the application and debug problems.
