Azure Monitor Application Insights
Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services.
Overview
Azure Monitor Application Insights is the APM tool within Azure Monitor, the primary performance monitoring service in Microsoft Azure. It is used to monitor live web applications, automatically detecting performance anomalies and providing powerful analytics tools to help diagnose issues and understand user activity.
✨ Key Features
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Distributed tracing
- Request rates, response times, and failure rates
- Dependency tracking
- Live Metrics Stream
- Application Map
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Seamless integration with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem and developer tools (Visual Studio)
- Powerful analytics with Application Insights Analytics query language
- Consumption-based pricing model
Unique Value: Provides a deeply integrated, powerful APM experience for developers and operators within the Azure ecosystem, from development in Visual Studio to production monitoring.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Generating distributed traces and collecting logs and metrics on Azure-based web applications.
- Monitoring cloud-native applications using OpenTelemetry or native SDKs.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Applications not running on Azure
- Teams requiring a single observability platform for multi-cloud or hybrid environments
🏆 Alternatives
Offers deeper integration with Azure services and a more unified experience within the Azure portal compared to third-party tools, but is less suited for multi-cloud monitoring.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Azure Support Plans tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: 5 GB of data ingestion per month.
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