Azure Application Insights vs Checkly

Overview

Azure Application Insights

Stacks343

Followers288

Votes12

Checkly

Stacks27

Followers17

Votes0

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Detailed Comparison

Azure Application Insights	Checkly
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.	Checkly is the API & E2E monitoring platform for the modern stack: programmable, flexible and loving JavaScript. Free for developers!
Extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service; Monitor your live applications; Automatically detect performance anomalies	Deep & flexible uptime and performance monitoring for API's and Web Apps; Full HTTP request editor for headers, params, body etc; Environment variables, encrypted for secrets; Basic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, HMAC support; Flexible Node.js based setup & teardown scripts; Site transaction monitoring - full scripting support with Puppeteer & Playwright; Runs in actual Chrome browsers in the cloud; Take screenshots and asserts page items; Email, Slack, Webhooks, Pagerduty, OpsGenie, Discord and SMS notifcations; Prometheus exporting; Triggers checks from CI/CD; SSL certificate expiry checks; Public dashboards with custom CNAME domain
Statistics
Stacks 343	Stacks 27
Followers 288	Followers 17
Votes 12	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Focus in detect performance anomalies and issues 3 Integrated with Azure 1 User flow 1 Live Metrics 1 Availability tests (Heart Beat check) Cons 2 Difficult to surface information 1 UI is clunky and gets in the way 1 Custom instrumentation via code only	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Prometheus Slack Node.js GitHub PagerDuty Terraform GitLab Playwright Discord Puppeteer

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