Is there a way to use application insights without an Azure subscription?

Question

I know my question sounds weird and probably the simple answer is "No". However, given that the list of good and useful things which the Application Insights SDK does, I was wondering if there is a way to make it log to something on-prem like a key-value pair database running on-prem.

Answer 1

Eventflow might do the trick. https://github.com/Azure/diagnostics-eventflow

It supports Application Insights as input and outputs like ElasticSearch, any Http etc. So you could host ES locally/on-prem, use Application Insights SDK to collect data, send it to Eventflow, and have it sent to local/on-prem ES cluster.

Or Alternatively, you can implement your own ITelemetryChannel to send data to any targets.