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Azure Application Insights

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description Azure Application Insights Overview

For organizations heavily invested in Microsoft Azure, Application Insights offers unparalleled integration. It provides deep Application Performance Monitoring (APM) capabilities, allowing users to trace requests across services, identify bottlenecks, and monitor availability all within the Azure portal. Its strength is its cohesive view of the entire application stack when using Azure services exclusively, making troubleshooting seamless for Azure architects.

help Azure Application Insights FAQ

What does Azure Application Insights monitor in a web app?

Application Insights monitors requests, dependencies, exceptions, performance counters, availability, and user telemetry. It is part of Azure Monitor and is commonly used with .NET, Node.js, Java, and browser JavaScript apps.

Can Application Insights trace requests across microservices?

Yes, distributed tracing is one of its core APM uses. It can connect a front-end request to downstream dependencies such as Azure Functions, SQL databases, or HTTP services when telemetry is instrumented correctly.

How is Application Insights different from Cloudflare Analytics?

Cloudflare Analytics is strongest at edge traffic, DNS, CDN, firewall, and request-level network visibility. Application Insights looks inside the application runtime, including exceptions, dependency calls, and slow server-side operations.

What query language does Application Insights use?

Application Insights data is queried with Kusto Query Language, usually abbreviated KQL. Teams use KQL to investigate tables such as requests, dependencies, exceptions, traces, and customEvents.

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