Application Insights | Azure

It is a performance management system which is used for various monitoring services for your live web application deployed in IIS or Web Apps.

I am going to show you how to see configure this Application Insights for monitoring your live web application.

First we will create an Application Insights, to do this you can type “Application Insights” in search bar and then click on add and create. Here I am creating the application insights in classic mode.

Now if you do not have any Web Apps running in Azure then lets see how we can configure the web apps in Azure, to do this, please type “App Services” and then add.

You can chose service plan Sku based on your requirement. I recommend you check the Sku and size limit in Microsoft documentation. Click next.

In Monitoring tab you can chose the application insights which you have created in earlier screen.

Now I have sample web application running locally and I am going to publish that web application on Azure Web Apps from visual studio.

Once you publish the web application on Azure web apps then go to your web apps in Azure and copy the url and paste in the browser, you will be able to see the welcome page of your web application.

Here you go, you have successfully published the web application on Azure web apps.

Now you can go to your application insights created earlier can see all the monitoring like Application Map, Live Metrics, User Flow, Funnels, Events etc.

You can add the availability test for your application in Application Insights.

Go to your application insights → Availability → Add Test and create test.

Provide the end url for your web apps and then you will be able to track the availability for your web application.

Task for you: You can stop the web app server and check the status of the availability.