Azure DevOps Blog

Metrics Explorer – Custom metrics, events and properties

February 7, 2015 Feb 7, 2015 02/7/15

Ketan Ghelani [MSFT]

Knowing how people use your application is vital to shaping your development priorities and architecture. To get that information, Visual Studio Application Insights makes it easy to insert a few snippets of code that send telemetry about how each feature is being used. With this release of Application Insights, we have added segmentation ...

Application Insights: Moving from Visual Studio Online Portal to Azure Preview Portal

February 6, 2015 Feb 6, 2015 02/6/15

Rahul Bagaria (MSFT)

In the last year, Application Insights has been making a transition from being part of the Visual Studio Online Portal to be one of the services offered in the new Azure Preview portal. It has been our vision to provide you complete 360° views of your applications' availability, performance and usage which can enable fast & powerful ...

Search your logs instantly using property filters

January 20, 2015 Jan 20, 2015 01/20/15

Guru Kirthigavasan

Our latest improvements to Application Insights Diagnostic Search include a personal favorite of mine, Property filters. While it’s easy to setup logging from your application, we don’t want you and your team to spend a lot time trying to search your logs. Property filters in the Diagnostic Search provides an at-a-glance display that helps...

Application Insights support for Multiple Environments, Stamps and App Versions

January 7, 2015 Jan 7, 2015 01/7/15

Victor Mushkatin

Application Insights can collect telemetry from your application at any stage in its development, from debugging to live production. By default, all these different streams will go into the same bucket and interfere with each other. For example, if you run heavy stress tests, they could give a false impression of the number of visitors you’...

Application Insights and Azure WebSites

January 7, 2015 Jan 7, 2015 01/7/15

VladJ

Azure WebSites is a popular “fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables you to build, deploy and scale enterprise-grade web Apps in seconds” (see more about Azure WebSites here).  Application Insights is a preview service available in the Azure Preview portal designed to help development teams get 360° views of their ...

Application Insights – Metric Explorer (ME) – Part 2

December 15, 2014 Dec 15, 2014 12/15/14

Importer

Segmentation is one of my favorite features in Metrics Explorer in Application Insights. It helps you slice and dice the telemetry about what users are doing with your application, as well as helps you understand performance metrics. Segmentation Let me show you how easy it is to answer some basic questions by using segmentation. This is for...

Application Insights: Exception Telemetry

December 12, 2014 Dec 12, 2014 12/12/14

Soubhagya Dash (MSFT)

Application Insights lets you monitor your live application for its availability, performance and usage. Exception telemetry is of course, a central piece of this. In this blog, we’ll look at the compelling diagnostics experience enabled by capturing exceptions along with request telemetry. I’ll also illustrate how you can configure your ...

Export telemetry from Application Insights

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14

Anton Fritz [MSFT]

At last! Everyone's been asking for this, so we're very pleased to announce it. You can set up a continuous export of your telemetry from the Application Insights portal in JSON format. We put the data into blob storage in your Microsoft Azure account. From there, you can pick it up and write whatever code you need to process it. For most ...

Updated Application Insights Status Monitor to support .12 (and later) Application Insights SDK

December 10, 2014 Dec 10, 2014 12/10/14

VladJ

The latest release of the Application Insights Status Monitor tool provides an update to the runtime instrumentation agent, which is a component of Application Insights that automatically discovers your code dependencies like SQL databases, other HTTP endpoints and Azure storage accounts.  This new runtime instrumentation agent requires your ...