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A Lap around Application Insights in Brisbane Australia March 18th and 21st and Adelaide March 19th

February 28, 2014 Feb 28, 2014 02/28/14

Charles Sterling

If you are in Australia looking for the latest ALM training and content Anthony Borton, ALM MVP and founder of EnhanceALM and will be on the road showing off Application Insights.  His presentation, A Lap around Application Insights, can been seen at the BNE .NET Users Group (18th), the Adelaide .NET Users Group (19th) and the QLD ALM ...

Usage monitoring with Application Insights JavaScript SDK Update

February 21, 2014 Feb 21, 2014 02/21/14

Charles Sterling

Posting on the behalf of Bret Grinslade.  If you want to know more or meet Bret he will also be doing a talk on this topic at TechED 2014. *****************************   We have posted an update to the JavaScript SDK for Usage.  Going forward, any time you get the JavaScript snippet from the Keys & Downloads page it will be with...

Invitation code for trialing Application Insights

January 13, 2014 Jan 13, 2014 01/13/14

Charles Sterling

I have had a couple people mention they had submitted a request for an Application Insights invitation code- but they never received a reply. Just wanted to let people know we try and get back to all requests at least by the following business day…So if you didn’t get a reply a spam filter may have gobbled it up! (image) The reason we ...

Implementing custom events in Application Insights

December 18, 2013 Dec 18, 2013 12/18/13

Charles Sterling

Application Insights Usage reports can supply an incredible wealth of information by simply adding a single line of JavaScript. Such as how many people visit a page, what browsers are they using, what operating systems they are using, where are they visiting from etc etc etc –but this doesn’t tell the entire story.  For instance, ...

Application Insights Microsoft Monitoring Agent setup and trouble shooting FAQ

December 11, 2013 Dec 11, 2013 12/11/13

Charles Sterling

Application Insights has only been available for a month; so it doesn’t come as any surprise that most of the questions and issues have been on the setup process and many of those question has been around the setup of the Microsoft Monitoring Agent. This document should help with the issues we have seen to date. Installation Issues ...

Meet the Application Insights Team (Application Insights Town hall)

December 9, 2013 Dec 9, 2013 12/9/13

Charles Sterling

At launch we announced an exciting new technology called Application Insights. Application Insights is a set of services that provide actionable insight into a production application. This data is then integrated back into the development tools and process. These services include: To ensure all this data is actionable we surface it ...

Renaming, aliasing or coalescing applications in Application Insights

November 26, 2013 Nov 26, 2013 11/26/13

Charles Sterling

Just saw a request on our internal AI alias on how to rename an application that is being monitored in Application Insights. For those of you that don’t want to read the entire post the directions can be summarized into: **Stop Monitoring the application with the current name, remove the old application THEN create the application by ...

Using a Visual Studio Web Test for availability monitoring in Application Insights

November 22, 2013 Nov 22, 2013 11/22/13

Charles Sterling

I am just wrapping up a week at the MVP Summit and one of the System Center MVPs asked me to walk him through creating a Web Test in Visual Studio and using it for Availability monitoring…Of course i promised to do this and as with most good intentions we ran out of time!  I am hoping this blog post will make up for the fact we couldn’t ...

First public drill down of Application Insights at DevTeach Vancouver

November 16, 2013 Nov 16, 2013 11/16/13

Charles Sterling

(image)   For the folks going to the largest developer conference in Canada, DevTeach;  you are in for a real treat as you will be first people on the planet to see Application Insights in anger as the DevTeach organizers have graciously added a session for this exciting new topic.  Unfortunately due to a family emergency i ...