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AppSignal vs Azure Application Insights: What are the differences?
Developers describe AppSignal as "Monitoring for Ruby and Elixir. By developers, for developers". AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby or Elixir application Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.. On the other hand, Azure Application Insights is detailed 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.
AppSignal and Azure Application Insights can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Publitas, Tolq, and inkl are some of the popular companies that use AppSignal, whereas Azure Application Insights is used by Poq, Nexosis, and Shyft. AppSignal has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Azure Application Insights, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of AppSignal
- Easy setup15
- Logs Errors8
- Tracks performance7
- Elixir support out of the box7
- Support Elixir7
- Profiles Ruby Memory Usage6
- In App Customer support via chat5
- Great UI5
- Affordable, holistic, All-in-One solution for Rails4
- Custom metrics4
- GIT Integration4
- Cheapest option4
- Anomaly detection4
Pros of Azure Application Insights
- Focus in detect performance anomalies and issues5
- Integrated with Azure3
- Live Metrics1
- User flow1
- Availability tests (Heart Beat check)1
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Cons of AppSignal
Cons of Azure Application Insights
- Difficult to surface information2
- Custom instrumentation via code only1
- UI is clunky and gets in the way1