Azure Application Insights vs Splunk

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Azure Application Insights

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Pros of Azure Application Insights
Pros of Splunk
  • 5
    Focus in detect performance anomalies and issues
  • 3
    Integrated with Azure
  • 1
    Live Metrics
  • 1
    User flow
  • 1
    Availability tests (Heart Beat check)
  • 2
    Ability to style search results into reports
  • 2
    Alert system based on custom query results
  • 2
    API for searching logs, running reports
  • 2
    Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc
  • 1
    Query any log as key-value pairs
  • 1
    Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc
  • 1
    Granular scheduling and time window support
  • 1
    Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing
  • 1
    Dashboarding on any log contents
  • 1
    Rich GUI for searching live logs

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Cons of Azure Application Insights
Cons of Splunk
  • 2
    Difficult to surface information
  • 1
    Custom instrumentation via code only
  • 1
    UI is clunky and gets in the way
  • 1
    Splunk query language rich so lots to learn

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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.

What is Splunk?

It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.

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What tools integrate with Azure Application Insights?
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