Application Insights

intermediate
monitoring
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Definition

Azure application performance management service for monitoring live applications. Like having a personal trainer for your applications that tracks their health and performance.

Real-World Example

Developers use Application Insights to identify slow database queries and optimize their web application performance.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

Azure Application Insights is an APM/observability service focused on application telemetry (requests, dependencies, exceptions, traces, availability, and user behavior). AWS CloudWatch Application Signals provides application-level health and SLO-style views built on CloudWatch metrics/logs/traces. Google Cloud typically combines Cloud Monitoring (metrics/alerts) with Cloud Trace (distributed tracing) and Logging for similar outcomes. OCI APM provides end-to-end tracing and performance monitoring for applications running on OCI and beyond.

AWS
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals
AZ
Azure Application Insights (part of Azure Monitor)
GCP
Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Trace (part of Google Cloud Observability)
OCI
OCI Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

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