App Center Retirement: Application Insights integration

[cbg-dev-k]

Describe the solution you'd like
An alternative way to log events to Application Insights from our mobile apps.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Since the official AppInsights SDK was deprecated for AppCenter, there don't seem to be alternatives?

Additional context
We'd prefer to keep our front- and backend logging together in one place, Application Insights. While there are many ways to do crash reporting, AppCenter was, as I understand it, the only official way to integrate AppInsights with an iOS app. Are any alternatives planned?

[ryanholden8]

Our team is also very interested in continuing the non-retired AppInsights integration in our apps.

[AntRemo]

+1 even if we have to pay to keep using it.

AppCenter worked very well for us.

[softlion]

I switched to Sentry. Last year it was a no go. Since a year they made an incredible work, and it has become better than appcenter for maui apps.

[cbg-dev-k]

@softlion we're in the process of switching to Sentry too, just crash reporting for now. It's really slick, but still a bummer that our frontend & backend logging ends up in two different services (that are both paid for 😅)

[vijayjpatient]

Yes. Please bring it back.