Understanding performance and usage impact of releases using annotations in Application Insights
A little over a year ago, the Application Insights team re-introduced release annotations so that users would have the ability to correlate occurrences of app and services releases with their APM data. VSTS users can simply add a step to their release scripts to create annotations, and users leveraging third-party release engines can push release annotations to Application Insights by simply calling a Powershell script.
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