App Center Export - Application Insights VS Blob Storage data reconciliation - xamarin

we have an app developed on Xamarin and we have set up a data export from App Center to Application Insights and Azure Blob as per link below
App Center Export - Visual Studio App Center | Microsoft Docs
We have noticed that the Blob contains more records than Application Insights and we are trying to understand the reason behind it; whether Application Insights applies any filter on some variables or we have an issue with the export from App Center to Application Insight
I have tried to apply a few filters on the Azure Blob data and see if I could get the number of records in Application Insight and I got really closed using this filer (but still not 100% which is what we are aiming for)
WHERE DATEDIFF(HOUR,Timestamp,IngressTimestamp)<48
Does anyone know if Application Insights applies a filter on top of the raw app data?
Thanks,
Davide

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