AppSignal vs Azure Application Insights

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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.

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Pros of AppSignal
Pros of Azure Application Insights
  • 15
    Easy setup
  • 8
    Logs Errors
  • 7
    Tracks performance
  • 7
    Elixir support out of the box
  • 7
    Support Elixir
  • 6
    Profiles Ruby Memory Usage
  • 5
    In App Customer support via chat
  • 5
    Great UI
  • 4
    Affordable, holistic, All-in-One solution for Rails
  • 4
    Custom metrics
  • 4
    GIT Integration
  • 4
    Cheapest option
  • 4
    Anomaly detection
  • 5
    Focus in detect performance anomalies and issues
  • 3
    Integrated with Azure
  • 1
    Live Metrics
  • 1
    User flow
  • 1
    Availability tests (Heart Beat check)

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Cons of AppSignal
Cons of Azure Application Insights
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    • 2
      Difficult to surface information
    • 1
      Custom instrumentation via code only
    • 1
      UI is clunky and gets in the way

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    What is AppSignal?

    AppSignal gives you and your team alerts and detailed metrics about your Ruby, Node.js or Elixir application. Sensible pricing, no aggressive sales & support by developers.

    What is Azure Application Insights?

    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.

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