With the release of Application Insights, Microsoft could help organizations learn more about how well their applications are performing, how often they are used, and how to fix them when they are not operating correctly.

The debut of the service marks Microsoft’s entry into the rapidly evolving market of application performance monitoring (APM), now dominated by companies such as Dynatrace, CA Technologies, AppDynamics, and New Relic.

Application Insights is more focused on the developer than most APM tools, asserted Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry, who is the product unit manager for the company’s Team Foundation Server release management software.

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