the following article analyzes interesting points about Azure Monitor

📑 Table of Contents

📊 Q. Azure Monitor Features

Feature Description
Live Metrics Observe activity from your deployed application in real time with no effect on the host environment.
Availability Also known as Synthetic Transaction Monitoring, probe your applications external endpoints to test the overall availability and responsiveness over time.
GitHub or Azure DevOps integration Create GitHub or Azure DevOps work items in context of Application Insights data.
Usage Understand which features are popular with users and how users interact and use your application.
Smart Detection Automatic failure and anomaly detection through proactive telemetry analysis.
Application Map A high level top-down view of the application architecture and at-a-glance visual references to component health and responsiveness.
Distributed Tracing Search and visualize an end-to-end flow of a given execution or transaction.

🔄 Q. Appinsight vs OpenTelemetry

Application Insights OpenTelemetry
Autocollectors Instrumentation libraries
Channel Exporter
Codeless / Agent-based Autoinstrumentation
Traces Logs
Requests Server Spans
Dependencies Other Span Types (Client, Internal, etc.)
Operation ID Trace ID
ID or Operation Parent ID Span ID