For Application insights reports - Azure Dashboard Vs PowerBI Dashboard, which one is best?

Question

For dashboards based on Azure log analytics, I see that we have got two options.

• Power BI dashboard based on log query : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/powerbi
• Azure Dashboard based on log query : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/azure-monitor/learn/tutorial-logs-dashboards

Which is recommended ? Why do we have Azure dashboard, as we can do same thing using Power BI dashboard ?

Answer 1

Azure Dashboard is specific only for Azure , as per the definition

Dashboards provide a way for you to create a focused and organized view in the Azure portal of your cloud resources. Use dashboards as a workspace where you can quickly launch tasks for day-to-day operations and monitor resources. Build custom dashboards based on projects, tasks, or user roles, for example.

Whereas PowerBI is a separate product by itself,

Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights

Yes PowerBI will give you flexibility to connect with your external data sources as well as you have n number of visualization , whereas dashboard comes with your Azure portal and hence you dont need to pay separately.

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