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Building high performance
software with Microsoft
Application Insights
Ken Cenerelli
@KenCenerelli
What is it?
Application Insights offers availability monitoring for your
deployed live applications
What it allows you to do:
Detect issues faster (dashboards, alerts)
Solve the right problems
Continuously improve your applications
Understand what your users are doing with them
Make telemetry data an integral part of your development cycle
Overview
Launched in November 2013 as part of Visual Studio Online
Derived from Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager
2012 (SCOM)
Uses similar technology available through SCOM:
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Global Service Monitor (GSM)
Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA)
Managed from the cloud
No desktop client or local storage needed on your apps
Two Versions
Application Insights for Visual Studio Online (Old)
There will be no new development for the older version
Use 1.x version of Application Insights
Application Insights in Microsoft Azure (New)
New features being added continuously
Need a subscription to Microsoft Azure
Use Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 or later with 2.x version of Application Insights
Which one to use?
Application Insights for VSO
Monitor a web service or web app
Monitor a Windows Store or
Windows Phone app
Monitor a Java web application at
the server
Create a continuously-updated
dashboard showing your metrics
Azure preview has customization
Must refresh dashboard manually
Application Insights in Azure
Availability and responsiveness of
any public web site
Performance of an ASP.NET web
server (on premise or Azure site)
Usage analytics of a web
application
If in doubt, Microsoft recommends using Application Insights in Azure
Demo
Visual Studio Online overview
Windows App with Application Insights
Implement Usage Monitoring
Visual Studio Online analytics dashboard
Application Insights in
Microsoft Azure Preview Launched in Fall 2014
Available through Microsoft Azure Preview Portal
Pro: Microsoft’s development efforts are focused here
Con: Functionality in VSO (e.g. Windows apps
monitoring) not yet migrated
Microsoft Azure basics
Need an account
Works with the free trial
Costs
Plans and pricing?
Deciding factors
All VSO functionality will eventually migrate to Azure
VSO version will eventually go away
Tradeoff: Save money now versus migrating to Azure later
Demo
Microsoft Azure Preview Portal overview
Create a new Application Insights resource
Use with a new project
Use with an existing project
Availability Monitoring
with Web Tests Works for any web application on any platform
Test the availability and performance of your app from
across the world
Similar to load testing web applications
Demo
Creating and diagnosing a web test
Telemetry Export
Use the Continuous Export button on your resource’s
Overview blade
Export your raw Application Insights telemetry data in
JSON format to an Azure storage account
From there you can download it or write code to process
it into usable format
Resources
Get started with Application Insights for Azure Preview:
http://bit.ly/1y4lZZH
http://bit.ly/1D1eUet
Application Insights for Visual Studio Online Channel 9 videos:
http://bit.ly/1A8HnLy
Get a Free Microsoft Azure Trial Account:
http://azure.microsoft.com
Contact Details:
@KenCenerelli
kencenerelli.wordpress.com
