AZ-104 Certification Notes

Chapter 12.5 - Configuring Application Insights

Describing Application Insights

• Application Insights
  • A full-stack application monitoring solution that developers can use to monitor applications
    • Supports any application instrumented with Application Insights
    • Repository for events and metrics data
    • Telemetry data is streamed into an Application Insight resource

Application Insights Features

• Metrics
  • Live Metrics Stream for near-real-time metrics data and Metrics Explorer for viewing how metrics vary over time
• Alerts
  • Alerts on metrics or event data to notify application administrators of issues
• Profiler
  • Determine how requests are delivered, such as page elements and their performance
• Application Map
  • A topological view of applications and dependencies, used to identify dependency issues such as bottlenecks
• Usage Analytics
  • Analyze user metrics from client-side events like user interaction

Architectural Components

• Client-Side
  • Gather Application Insight data from the client-side
• Application
• Dependencies

Key Takeaways

• Runtime Instrumentation
  • Code-less approach with Application Insights, no package implementation
• Built-Time Instrumentation
  • Code approach with Application Insights, package implemented via SDK
• Instrumentation Key
  • Key for implementing instrumentation in applications. Stored in Application Insights resource