Comparision between AppDynamics and Application Insights

Question

I am trying to a good comparison between AppDynamics and Application Insights in regard to Azure App Service.

I tried to google around but couldn't find any good comparison, if someone can point me or summarize here.

Answer 1

Information I got from another website.

Application Insights (AI) is a very simplistic APM tool today. It does do transaction tracing, it has very limited code and runtime diagnostics, and it doesn’t go very deep into analyzing the browser performance. Application Insights is much more like Google Analytics than like a typical APM tool.

• AI does not support mobile apps, AppDynamics does Android and iOS
• AI only supports Java, .NET, and node.js while AppDynamics supports many additional languages and technologies.
• AI requires code changes to do additional metric capture from the code. AppDynamics has do this on the fly without code change on most languages.
• AI doesn’t so transaction distributed tracing, it has a simple data collection model similar to what New Relic does. This makes troubleshooting much harder in complex apps. If your app is simple it’s not required.
• AI lacks transaction scoring and baselining, you must set manual thresholds. AppDynamics does this for every metric and every business transaction.
• AI doesn’t monitor databases or data stores. AppDynamics does both.
• AI is SaaS only, while AppDynamics can be deployed on premises or SaaS.