Application Insights is a feature of Azure Monitor that provides Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for live applications. It enables developers to monitor, diagnose, and optimize the performance and health of their applications in real-time. By integrating with OpenTelemetry (OTel), it offers a vendor-neutral approach to collecting telemetry data, ensuring comprehensive observability across platforms.

Key Features

Monitoring and Diagnostics

Application Insights offers tools to monitor and diagnose application performance:

• Application Dashboard: Provides a quick overview of application health and performance.

• Application Map: Visualizes the architecture and interactions between components.

• Live Metrics: Displays real-time analytics for application activity.

• Transaction Search: Helps trace and diagnose transactions to identify bottlenecks.

• Failures View: Analyzes application failures to minimize downtime.

• Performance View: Tracks performance metrics and identifies bottlenecks.