This is not a programming question.
Is there a tool out there that lets me explore my exported App Insights data and do advanced things like funnels and graphing different metrics? I'm thinking something like Mixpanel or other anayltics websites but that would work on my own data from Application Insights.
Azure Portal is too limited e.g. it doesn't have funnels and it's too slow.
Try Power BI with Application Insights content pack. Here is a short guide how to get started
You should create a continuous export of your app insights data.
Just create or use an storage account, and then in azure portal goto Application Insights settings and configure the continuous export feature
Full article: Export telemetry from Application Insights
Once you have your data, you can process it in any way with the tool you want.
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I'm trying to display azure application insights on a grafana dashboard, the application insights are enabled for a web service on the Azure ML studio but end up with empty charts for all the available metrics. Can you please tell me where I'm doing it wrong or if I'm missing something? Thank you.
Application Insights is an Application Performance Management service from Azure for web developers on multiple platforms and it can be used to monitor your web application. You would get the charts in Grafana if you are following steps mentioned below.
In Grafana, use the Azure Monitor Data Source plugin which supports Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights metrics. But remember this plugin requires Grafana 4.5.0 or newer for Application Insights. You can install the plugin in after updating your Grafana in CLI with the following command.
grafana-cli plugins install grafana-azure-monitor-datasource
You can also set up Grafana on Azure through the Azure Marketplace.
The plugin can access metrics from both the Azure Monitor service and the Application Insights API. But you would need to configure access to the services. If you are using Application Insights, then you need two pieces of information from the Azure Portal which are the Application ID and an API key. Check this Application Insights API QuickStart for more information.
Write analytic queries for the Application Insights. When you set service type to "Application Insights", the menu icon to the right adds another option, "Toggle Edit Mode". Once clicked, it gives you a full text area in which to write log analytics queries. Check this Writing Analytics Queries For Application Insights section of the Grafana document for more information.
The above mentioned procedure will help you get the proper charts in the Grafana. I would also suggest to read this Monitor your Azure services in Grafana document from Microsoft for more information.
Im new to Azure. I have an App service that has Application Insight enabled. Im trying now to understand what Diagnotics Settings is and what it can be used for.
It seems like most of what Diagnotics Settings does can be done through Application Insights.
Is this correct or am I misunderstanding the purpose behind Diagnotics Settings?
There are some (major) differences. From the docs:
Platform logs in Azure, including the Azure Activity log and resource logs, provide detailed diagnostic and auditing information for Azure resources and the Azure platform they depend on. Platform metrics are collected by default and typically stored in the Azure Monitor metrics database.
Now, when we are talking about auditing information and activity logs, that is something that Application Insights (AI) cannot do. Also, AI is geared towards applications whereas Diagnostics Settings is used to emit information about azure platform resources. AI allows you to send custom telemetry and also can track a lot more detailed information.
I assume you ask this question in the context of an Azure Web App or Azure Function. I'd recommend to enable both. AI has a lot more to offer than Diagnostics Settings when it comes to detailed information about how your application is behaving.
What is the use case for Azure application insights or log analytics?
I am using APIM and Azure Functions and want to perform logging for requests. Which one is the best fit, application insights or log analytics?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/azure-monitor/overview
Update
In particular, any info on Azure application insights vs log analytics used for APIM?
What used to be known as Application Insights and Log Analytics independent offerings - are now a part of Azure Monitor. We're actively merging both platforms.
For instance, Analytics exploration part is exactly the same (same backend, same UX, same capabilities, just different data schema). Alerts are the same. Some experiences are still different (for instance, app experiences such as Application Map).
Example: in Azure Monitor Overview (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/azure-monitor/overview):
"Log Analytics" is referred as a feature and not what used to be known as Log Analytics as a product. For instance, Application Insights resources provide the same "Log Analytics" feature.
For Azure Functions / APIM the native integration with Azure Monitor is through Application Insights.
Update (October, 2020). Application Insights can now store data in Log Analytics workspaces. Now many workspace related features are available to Application Insights resources. How to migrate.
Azure function better to go with application insights and if you working with kubernetes cluster choose Log analytics work space
Azure Functions offers built-in integration with Azure Application Insights to monitor functions.
So for azure function, you'd better use application insights, which is easy configure.
Details are here.
Application Insights
Application Insights is an Application Performance Management (APM) service, that you use to monitor your application. It helps to detect performance anomalies, has analytic abilities, and can help you understand how users interact with your application.
Not only can it collect telemetry data from your application, but it can also collect information from the application host, Azure Diagnostics, or Docker logs. It’s also nice that you can use Application Insights to set up tests that send requests to your website/service to check for availability (and receive a notice if these fail).
One of the most powerful things that I’ve noticed in my use of Application Insights (which is monitoring this blog), is the Smart Detection feature. This feature proactively analyzes and detects changes in your application. So even if you hadn’t set up an Alert of monitoring of a specific metric, it can pick it up and react to it.
Is it possible to use the application insights profiler on azure functions? Either via the portal or a more manual means.
I haven't found a way in the portal and I haven't seen explicit documentation stating either way nor github tickets.
I'd assume probably not, as many of the automagic features of application insights don't seem to be supported yet.
If it's not possible, out of interest is it because of the azure functions sandbox not giving enough permissions for profiling?
If it's not possible, out of interest is it because of the azure functions sandbox not giving enough permissions for profiling?
The application insights profiler is just supported in web app. The Azure function belongs to function app. So you can not use profiler in Azure function.
Profiler currently works for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core web apps that are running on Web Apps.
If you want to suggest Microsoft to add some new features like app insights profiler in app insights in azure function, you could put your suggestion in Github.
Next steps
Application Insights is now GA’d and ready for production workloads. We’re also listening for any feedback you have. Please file it on our GitHub. We’ll be adding some new features like better sampling controls and automatic dependency tracking soon.
I was wondering if someone can shed some lights on the application monitoring and alerting solution that's being used to specifically monitor the Azure app service. We have multiple API apps running on App service service and we would like to monitor certain metrics (ex: Availability, response time, number of request received, etc). I enabled the application insight on each of these apps and the result is quite promising, it fulfills all my requirement, but there's one small issue: I need to scroll through each app to see their performance. I can't aggregate them all in one space. I would like to create a centralized dashboard for all aforementioned metrics and have them displayed. I tried using OMS but it seems to be lacking a lot of functionality.
Any pointer would be very appreciated.
I wrote recently about it on our blog: http://predica.pl/blog/azure-monitoring-and-auditing/ - you will find link to MS documentation also there.
If you are using App Insights already you should be able to pick things from App Insights and put it on the Azure portal dashboard. Other than that probably getting data into Power Bi application insight is your best shot - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-content-pack-application-insights/