Azure DevOps Blog

Application Insights: Easy DevOps On-ramp for App Builders

May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015 05/28/15

Charles Sterling

( Editor’s note: Posting this for Clemri who is busy releasing a bunch of cool new DevOps news at the at the Velocity conference -Chuck)   (image) The O’Reilly Velocity conference is one of the leading conferences for DevOps practitioners. This year the event is in California, May 28-29. If you plan to be at Velocity, come see us on ...

Application Insights: Choose your own Performance Counters

April 1, 2015 Apr 1, 2015 04/1/15

Soubhagya Dash (MSFT)

You’ve always been able to see some performance counters in Metric Explorer: Process CPU, Available Memory, and so on. Windows has lots of other performance counters, and you may also have defined your own custom counters. And now with the latest Application Insights SDK for web apps you can collect any performance counters you choose – ...

Introducing the Application Insights SDK for Java

March 6, 2015 Mar 6, 2015 03/6/15

Harel Broitman [MSFT]

When you publish a Java web application, you want a clear view of what users are doing with it and how it’s performing. Your most effective plan for future work comes from a deep understanding of how people use what you’ve already provided: which features they like, what patterns they follow, and what they find difficult. You also want to ...

Adding Application Insights to a Windows 8.1 Universal App

February 25, 2015 Feb 25, 2015 02/25/15

Joshua Weber-MSFT

I’ve commonly been asked if Application Insights supports Windows 8.1 Universal Apps. You can be highly successful utilizing Application Insights with Universal Apps. Integration of Application Insights is a few additional steps but very straightforward. In this blog post, I’ll walk through the steps to integrate Application Insights into ...

Exploring Data at Scale with New Capabilities in Application Insights and Metrics Explorer

February 19, 2015 Feb 19, 2015 02/19/15

Andrew Bragdon [MSFT]

Application Insights can capture, store and index large scale amounts of data about your application’s availability, performance and usage. But how can you gain insights from this data once it is stored in Application Insights? In this blog post, we will take you through some of the brand new features in Metrics Explorer for exploring large ...

Modern Apps & Agile Analytics

February 18, 2015 Feb 18, 2015 02/18/15

Peter Provost [MSFT]

Introduction Agile software development came out of a number of experimental approaches taken in the late 1990s to change the way software was planned, developed and delivered. One of the essential components common to all agile methods is the concept of incremental delivery. When an engineering team adopts an incremental delivery paradigm, ...

Learn about your app’s usage with Application Insights

February 14, 2015 Feb 14, 2015 02/14/15

Importer

We’re excited to introduce our new usage analysis experience for both your web applications and device apps (Windows Phone and Windows Store applications). Using Application Insights, it’s now easy to answer common questions about your app adoption, your users’ profile, the way your users experience the app, your top used features, and ...