Azure Application Insights Tutorial | Amazing telemetry service

Creating logging and performance tracking solution for your applications can be challenging, especially in multi-service cloud environment. In this video I will show you why Azure Application Insights is the right tool for the job.
In this episode I give you introduction to what Application Insights service is, introduce to you basic capabilities of the service and multitude of scenarios that it can be used for.
Source code for demos: github.com/MarczakIO/azure4ev...
In this episodes live demo of
- Creating Web Application with Application Insights
- Adding server-side monitoring
- Adding client-side monitoring
- Debugging with failure views
- Investigating application performance
- Querying application telemetry logs
- Code-less monitoring
Next steps for you after watching the video
1. What is azure application insights
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
2. Code-based monitoring
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
3. Code-less monitoring
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
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[@flaviucristian3658]

Great tutorial! Please keep up the good work. I also followed you az-900 series and I really liked. Really looking forward to see other series like that.

[@emrebabayigit3942]

To be honest, very detailed and the best azure video tutorials on the internet. Please make videos for some paid online learning platforms for azure certifications. Thank you so much for this amazing work!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks, will do!

[@saltznetwork]

This is one of the best videos I have come across on KZbin. So detailed. Thanks.

[@Navi24]

Great content Adam, appreciate your efforts. Keep us posted with such informative videos. Thank you.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks, will do!

[@mangesh2215]

The video did gave an huge insights on the topic, thanks and appreciate you efforts Adam!

[@christianfrancke]

As usual: Great quality + very comprehensive content

[@vinaykaradia6530]

Followed till the end of the video and felt confident about the azure App service. Thanks

[@deepb4uz]

Thank you so much Adam, lot of learning in one session. keep sharing!!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks, will do!

[@reading_ring]

Clear Application Insights explanation, this is what I was looking for, thanks!

[@joe_wheat]

I have turned back to this video again after some time, so definitely it's a good demo ;)

[@Deltacasper]

Detailed and on spot as always :) Would like an even deeper introduction to the more advanced topics within application insights and azure monitor such as custom metrics and the kusto query language

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks you! I love all of Azure features and services. In future I hope I can do my KZbin as a part time or full time job. This would allow me to show all of it :D

[@pavelmatua794]

Just great session, with very clear and understandable demos! Thanks Adam.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure!

[@kousarbanu9185]

🙄

[@chelhernandez]

Awesome video! This really helped me to understand this Azure service. Thank you so much.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Great to hear! :) thanks for stopping by!

[@girish8611]

I am big fan of Adam, the way he present content worth million dollor, keep up great work.

[@ShadowHawk99]

gotta say that was an impressive session. solid work!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Cheers Matt!

[@Jmconnell2012]

Excellent Video! Would like to see a deeper dive into using Funnel, Impact, and Retention features

[@xxxxxx542]

Thanks Adam!! Excelente video!👍👍! I learned a lot, I will apply that in my current projects

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Fantastic! Thanks!

[@shubhamsrivastava1972]

Amazing video. Probably the best on internet for azure fundamentals.

[@NewHOD]

My first of Adam's videos. Subscribed! It's that good.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Welcome aboard! Thanks!

[@sammy2ooo]

Another amazing video, which is down to the point. Thank you!!!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad you liked it!

[@DeepakKumar-rg9ss]

I sincerely appreciate your efforts on producing such useful contents. Keep doing.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks, will do!

[@deepaksinghalinfo]

Awesome Adam, Thanks for this detailed video

[@bhaskarupadhyayula2669]

Great video and information packed content. What was the telemetry tool/SDK used in your application to send telemetry data to App Insights? Are you deploying your own webserver? Did you instrument your webserver too with Telemetry took/SDK? Again, thank you for great video.

[@markuspfaff3780]

Hi Adam, what is the tool you are using to highlight your mouse cursor and its clicks? Recently watched your entire AZ900 course and loved every minute of it. Keep up the great work!

[@KiyanshKiya]

Your videos are the best over internet for Azure

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks! :)

[@regres2005]

Great video! Thank you, Adam!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure!

[@makarandnidhalkar7139]

just the thing I was looking for...Thanks a lot... Subscribed 👍

[@grantolosi]

Geat explaination, thank you so much !

[@shblg]

Awsome! Hatts off for your hard work and amazing video. Thanks a lot :)

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure 😊

[@NguyenDung-dg5fl]

It is absolutely incredible, thanks for your content production, it help me in work much

[@NguyenDung-dg5fl]

You deserved got one subscribe from me, world need someone like you for better

[@jayanthofficeuse562]

This was very good explanation Adam. Please make video on Visual Studio debug on end to end exception traces from application insights

[@shawnb3486]

Awesome video! This really helped me to understand App Insights Thanks :)

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dukephuongnguyen2053]

Thanks Adam for sharing the knowledge

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure!

[@erbasheer]

Excellent video mate, very informative.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jeancolombel2901]

Great content. Thank you ! 👏👏

[@ramanjha2277]

awesome video ! Thank you so much Adam !!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure!

[@amirsohail2630]

Thank you, It was very informative

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thrilled2bits]

Thank you for your vid, really useful. KQL was previously and commonly known as Keyword Query Language (from old SharePoint days)...

[@coder8515]

A.I. is really impressive! And this video is very well done.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

It really is! Thanks!

[@andresfd89]

Amazing tutorial thank you!

[@lavisharma3210]

Great video. Got to lean a lot !!! Thanks

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Cheers, always great to hear that!

[@jameslin3761]

I'm trying to investigate the usage of Log Analytics and would like to understand the feature about the application insight. Thank you so much about the clear instruction ~!!

[@CloudInspired]

Thanks for the detailed content

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks for watching!

[@rs-tarxvfz]

Thank you Marc!👍

[@pallaviak11]

Very informative video, thanks for sharing.

[@luizrsjr10]

Amazing tutorial!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad you think so!

[@KARTHIKO11]

Nice Way of Explanation Good Job Bro🙏

[@mihai9324]

Very nice video. Thanks !

[@ayushrastogi1685]

thank you so much for this video.

[@martinshiveral6604]

Great video Adam! Much better than Microsoft seem to be able to muster for their own products.

[@kartiksaini5619]

thanks alot man really helpful tutorial

[@mytech-youtube8436]

Amazing content!

[@TinaMarcus-cz9gf]

thank you so much for this video

[@swatisuslade4855]

Very nice video Adam....It was really useful to understand application insight feature

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rajeshangappan7849]

Amazing brother...

[@prasantapradhan5449]

Thank you so much Adam

[@harshad_dev]

Hi Adam, this is really helpful. I have some problem with my app insights visualization. I am using spring-boot-starter, I have configured everything mentioned in the documentation, However I can see/visualize all my services on application map but I can not see the linkage between them. Which means the call made between them are missing in the metrics. (Missing dependency chain) Can you please help?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Hey. Diagrams are correlated and drawn based on the logs. I'd investigate if your logs have all the proper correlation IDs for app insights to build the diagram. Here is the article on how to do it: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/correlation

[@johng5295]

Thanks in million. Awesome.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad it helped!

[@rodrigorios6585]

very good video mate

[@Divyanka-andfriends]

really well explained

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks!

[@wadexyz]

Wow, love it. Any idea how this compares to other 3rd party monitoring apps like Dynatrace, etc?

[@happyabbi18]

Thank you , It's useful for me...

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad to hear that

[@BinodGurung18]

Hey Adam, Is it possible to store HTTP request and response body in the application insights? If it is possible, could you please share some ideas? Thank you.

[@toyinonagoruwa4183]

Hello Adam, I want to ask a couple of questions. Hope you don't mind? 1. Let's say one of our users made a failed request (i.e 4** code), Is there a functionality on Azure APIM where I can be able to get & log the email/username of that individual that made the request? I know there is a unique Id to each request but it doesn't do any good since I can't use it to map the particular user in question. 2. Let's say I have more than 1 AKS clusters that the Azure API management points to, Is there a way I can manually allocate the percentage (%) of requests (i.e 70% of traffic goes to cluster A while the remaining 30% of traffic goes to cluster B) to these clusters within the Azure API management tool? Thanks in advance.

[@KiyanshKiya]

Please do a video on API Management, authentication and authorisation

[@AdamMarczakYT]

APIM is coming soon!

[@jvrakesh]

Thanks Adam. I have a question, is there a way we can refresh the ai_session data

[@bellsandoor]

Hi Adam, thank you for this, what about using Azure Insights for ML models to see how do they perform in production? can it be used?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Yes, absolutely, check out this article docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-enable-app-insights Thanks for watching.

[@workfusion6652]

Great video. Thanks for putting this up. I did have a question for you. How can I add a custom info or debug messages to App Insights and then finding them in Insights? Is that even possible?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

If you add App Insights SDK to your application you can log any message/info you need using their logger class. Here is an example using .net core docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/asp-net-core?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556 and then query logs using search docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/diagnostic-search?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556 or log analytics queries by clicking "Logs" button.

[@mannuelf]

excellent

[@Iamgogetartist]

Very Good

[@zagoskintoto]

I hope you read my comment and get to reply! Is there any way to show either the dashboard, the live metrics, or even the telemetry, but in the home page of your web app? Thanks in advance if you happen to read it!

[@carlosblk]

may i use app insights to monitor an aplication like selenium runinning in a VM?

[@user-le1jo2ee9w]

hi, before i try it can you tell me if its free and if it offer the possibility to see which part of the code takes the most time and how long it takes to execute for a specific action, for example when i log in, i want to see how long it takes and which is the slowest part in the code for that operation (see precise timing and call counts of function in my code), for example a particular function or operation which takes 2 seconds, and the entire login takes 3 seconds?

[@user-ei1iu1mn2t]

Hi all, I ran into an issue @13:25 in saying using models error CS0234: type or namespace name 'Models' does not exist in the namespace 'demo'. Not sure how to go about it and ive had a good search online. Any help would be appreciated

[@yam1803]

Can we use application insights for desktop and system applications

[@AjaySinghDhangar]

Hi @Adam, Amazing Video...

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Hey, thanks!

[@theazureguy8101]

I am attempting to following along in the video. However, when I preform the 2nd step I get the following error message - dotnet add package Microsoft.ApplicationInsights --version 2.17.0 Determining projects to restore... Writing C:\Users\dave\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp88DD.tmp info : Adding PackageReference for package 'Microsoft.ApplicationInsights' into project 'C:\demo\demo.csproj'. info : Restoring packages for C:\demo\demo.csproj... error: NU1100: Unable to resolve 'Microsoft.ApplicationInsights (>= 2.17.0)' for 'net5.0'. error: Package 'Microsoft.ApplicationInsights' is incompatible with 'all' frameworks in project

[@ashokkrishnaganta1514]

Hello Adam, How can I monitor and create alerts for micro services inside AKS and those dependent services through Azure monitor? Is there a way to do it? Please reply thanks!

[@ReadyMeta1]

If you implemented app center sdk for analytics and crashlytics. And export it to application insight, do you get most services of application insight?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Most features should still work. Here is the guide if you want to get started docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/learn/mobile-center-quickstart

[@randalvc]

Many Thanks

[@AdamMarczakYT]

You are welcome

[@dwainDigital]

I'm trying to understand traces and exceptions in logs. Is there a relationship between these tables. example count on messages from traces but where there were exceptions?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

It's just logs so no relationship schema but you still can join them using KQL queries. Check out MS article on log correlation docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/correlation . In general use KQL to query your logs. Or use Search panel and filter events to get some basic info on failed requests. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/diagnostic-search

[@HomedogNik]

Hi Adam, first- thanks for the video! I still don't really understand, how I can monitor certain actions through application insights. I have a chat bot set up on Azure and am trying to find out, how many users had how many messages sent to my bot.. Do you have any idea?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks for watching! When it comes to tracking users remember that azure bot service automatically tracks users and shows some basic metrics, other than this you can setup extra stuff as described in this article. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/usage-overview It shows how to set up custom events on the server side too. So you can hook it up to your code of your bot.

[@Lunolux]

nice, thx

[@000zendooo]

Great

[@SivaprasadSR]

Hi Adam, how to get the log.LogInformation("C# HTTP trigger") log data in Application Insights

[@AdamMarczakYT]

If you have app insights connected it will get there by default. Nothing extra you need to do. Just check the logs. :)

[@thavanamsravani5961]

Is Application insights only used for web application.or do we use in mobile apps also .

[@Iamgogetartist]

From where we can download code used in the sample demo ?

[@junaidmalik9593]

Hello Adam, Thanks for another amazing tutorial. i have a quest please, how can we connect power bi to any of our Azure database with in Azure? and can we call power bi on ADF? please help.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Hey there. Not sure I understand, What kind of issue do you have when connecting power bi to azure data sources? Also why would you want to call power bi from ADF.

[@junaidmalik9593]

@@AdamMarczakYT 1st of all thanks for responding. For example i use ADF to copy data from blobs and i load it to a Azure DB, then based on the data present on DB i want to create visualisation. So can i be able to do taht on azure data factory or should i connect power bi desktop to the Azure data base.

[@naveedwani5346]

nice vedio

[@user-sz6uj7gf5y]

How can I setup Apdex score performance monitoring?

[@dinahelmy6525]

how to get the slides presented in this video?

[@prashanthkommana8648]

Hi Mate .Very Very Good Job. My question now :- I want to extract my VMs list from azure portal with Sizes ( Size is imp) . So i arrange the columns accordingly but i cannot export from portal in csv. Could you please give me a JSON template to extract the info please. Will be a great help.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Hey. You can use PowerShell commands Get-AzVM and then do " Export-Csv" to return result to CSV.

[@prashanthkommana8648]

@@AdamMarczakYT hey Adam.. I developed a custom ps script n it worked.. thnks a lot... Thnks mate

[@AB-fp8xo]

This will probably add a huge overhead to you web server to collect and process all that additional information just for application insights...

[@nestorfloresca6603]

is there a way to implement performance counter in Azure app service?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Yes. Check this out docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/performance-counters

[@deepakbehera498]

How can we use Application insights by python and integrate with databricks.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Good question, check this article. It might be helpful docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2018/june/azure-databricks-monitoring-azure-databricks-jobs-with-application-insights and this docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/databricks-monitoring/application-logs

[@77zishan]

First for the like 😜

[@AdamMarczakYT]

😁

[@riser9644]

can u please map tutorial for health check with js , function app

[@miklosnemeth8566]

17:23 Live Metrics seems to be available only for .NET applications. It's not available for my NodeJS app services :(

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Live metrics stream should work with .NET, .NET Core, Java and NodeJS. Check on this guide on the setup process docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/nodejs?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556#live-metrics 😊

[@miklosnemeth8566]

@@AdamMarczakYT you are the hero of the day. Happy new year.

[@jamesl4825]

Hi Adam, in this vide you are mentioning that Azure Insights is like Google Analytics, I have a question is it possible to (as in Firebase) track : custom events + attached parameters (to for example send an event button_click and than attach parameters to it color: blue, text: click_on_me and so on. Frebase also allows you to set user properties (attributes specific to a given app user) is it also available in app insights? Would you recommend it and can say for sure that with Azure App insights you can achieve the same stuff as Firebase / Analytics for Web+app in tracking the user in-app activity?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Hey James, yes you can track custom events and custom properties on each layer, both client side and server side. Here is document which describes this: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/api-custom-events-metrics I can't compare to Firebase as I didn't had a chance to use it. Hoep this helps!

[@fearghalmurray9579]

You mentioned "Kusto" as a language you would encourage us to learn, what is the correct spelling of this language, so I may research it?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Yea, it's a little like a mix between function language and SQL and is used in few Azure services including resource graph. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/query/?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

[@fearghalmurray9579]

@@AdamMarczakYT spelling the name correctly was a lucky guess, thanks Adam