Azure- Application Insights

     

Scenario: Monitor your applications logs, analytics and alerts.

Solution:

Azure Application Insights provides analytical data about your application. You create a new resource to monitor a new application. Then use instrumentation key to configure the Application Insights SDK, which links your telemetry to the resource.

1. Navigate -> Azure portal
2. Search -> Application Insights
1. Name
2. Resource Group
3. Region
4. Mode [Classic or Workspace-based]
5. Review + Create
3. Search for the newly created application Insights and copy the instrumentation key [Connection Strings]
4. In Project -> appsettings.json add below "ApplicationInsights": {  "ConnectionString": "InstrumentationKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"  }
5. Enable Application Insights [server-side telemetry]
1. Project > Add Application Insights Telemetry
2. Select subscription -> Resource > Register.
3. Nuget package -> Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore, should have been added
6. Enable for web applications [client-side telemetry]
1. _ViewImports.cshtml -> @inject Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore.JavaScriptSnippet JavaScriptSnippet
2. _Layout.cshtml -> @Html.Raw(JavaScriptSnippet.FullScript)</head>
7. On application run telemetry would start flowing
1. Live Metrics- Machine metrics.
2. ILogger logs - Application logs