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Perform diagnostic search across your logs – Now Improved!

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14
Importer
You no longer have to install any agent on your server to use the fast diagnostic log search in Application Insights. You simply add Application Insights to your app project, together with an adapter for your favorite logging platform. Your log events are sent to the portal, where you can query them as you like, and get quickly to the root of ...

Announcing the New Application Insights Alerts Page

May 30, 2014 May 30, 2014 05/30/14
Charles Sterling
(Posting for one of the PMs on the Application Insights team Soubhagya Dash or just “Dash” as we call him in the hallways)   We are excited to announce the new Alerts page user experience! This experience replaces the prior page and has been rebuilt ground up with significant back-end service improvements as well. Check it out! ...

Latest Microsoft Monitoring Agent

May 28, 2014 May 28, 2014 05/28/14
VladJ
The Application Insights team has released a new agent for Application Performance Management scenarios.  This updated agent is version 7.1.11196.0 and is available here.  If you are already using version 7.1.11115.0 then upgrading to this agent can be done by uninstalling the old one and then installing the newer version (for Azure Cloud ...

Release Management Update 3 CTP1 is now available with DSC Deployment Feature!

May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 05/22/14
jayantivemulapati
We have just published the CTP1 for Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 3. You can download this release here and read through the KB article here. With this update, you can use DSC (Desired State Configuration) to deploy apps to your environments. Using DSC, you can run Powershell scripts on target servers of an environment ...

Application Insights in DevDays Finland

May 19, 2014 May 19, 2014 05/19/14
Charles Sterling
It is always very interesting to see how different technologies are adopted at different rates in different geographies for instance MSMQ initially had its largest user base Australia.  In rolling out Application Insights we have seen a large uptake in Europe namely Netherlands and Finland.  In the case of MSMQ the cause was ...

Brisbane ALM User Group: Integrating Application Insights in the end to end ALM workflow by Anthony Borton

April 27, 2014 Apr 27, 2014 04/27/14
Charles Sterling
The warming weather and the Thunder Showers this weekend definitely left me a little homesick for Australia…which compelled me to announce this weeks ALM User Group in Brisbane.  Next week is “bring a friend” week at the Brisbane ALM User Group with with every person who brings a friend receiving free soft drinks during...

New agent for Application Insights available

April 15, 2014 Apr 15, 2014 04/15/14
VladJ
We are excited to announce that there is an updated version of Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) available now. Performance counter collection frequency was reduced from 5 minutes to 1 minute for standard and custom counters so you’ll see trends more granularly and faster. There are also improvements in our log collection feature and bug ...