Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/mwatson/archive/2017/01/24/application-insights--16-things-every-developer-needs-to-know.aspx
Application Insights is Microsoft’s lightweight application performance monitoring service. I have collected a nice list of things that every developer should know. Including tips, key features, and limitations.1. Make sure your app targets .NET 4.6, and .NET 2.0 is not supported
2. Warning! Sensitive data is not scrubbed from dynamic SQL queries
3. Key limitation: Finding slow SQL queries
4. SQL query times are not always correct
5. Azure App Services require a site extension for all features
6. View top exceptions in your application
7. Asynchronous HttpClient calls are not supported
8. Tracking application dependencies
9. View all details for a single web request (transaction trace)
10. How to Identify why a request or entire application is slow
11. Monitoring & Alerts features and limitations
12. Reporting across applications
13. No support for the concept of multiple “environments” (QA, Prod, etc)
14. App Insights is not a code profiler
15. Application Insights has a robust API, and you will likely need it
16. How to use Application Insights with Windows Services
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