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Azure Application Insights vs TraceView: What are the differences?
Developers describe Azure Application Insights as "It is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers". It is use to monitor your live web application. It will automatically detect performance anomalies. It includes powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users actually do with your app. On the other hand, TraceView is detailed as "Ridiculously Detailed Application Monitoring". Expose everything, from the webserver to database, cache and API calls. The core technology is based on X-Trace, a distributed tracing framework that’s served as the inspiration for companies like Google and Twitter.
Azure Application Insights and TraceView can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Pros of Azure Application Insights
- Focus in detect performance anomalies and issues6
- Integrated with Azure3
- Live Metrics1
- User flow1
- Availability tests (Heart Beat check)1
Pros of TraceView
- The heatmap helped me isolate DB related issues5
- Heatmap helped me find a Tomcat Memcached problem2
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Cons of Azure Application Insights
- Difficult to surface information2
- Custom instrumentation via code only1
- UI is clunky and gets in the way1
