Azure AppInsights & Monitor - New additions and changes.

Prashanth Kumar
3 min readJun 8, 2020

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This article talks about some of the latest addition’s with respect to Application Insight’s (Aka AppInsight).

Few new additions starting from the time you create a new AppInsight service.

Workspace-based resources are currently in public preview, it allows you to send your Application Insights telemetry to a common Log Analytics workspace

This new workspace-based(preview) option will allow to send telemetry to Log Analytics workspace. Lets select this one while creating a new AppInsight.

Some of the new enhancements in AppInsights are:

  • Users
  • Sessions
  • Events
  • Funnels
  • User flows
New Usage Screen

Lets look into 1 by 1

  • Users: This option is mainly used for to locate users (location), what browsers and operating systems they use. One of the enhancement is Share option. Now you can share this report to any users.

New Layout:

Users screen with multiple options.

Old layout:

Old layout

Few options which are no longer available as compare to previous version/release of AppInsight:

Live metric stream : renamed as “Live Metrics”
Metric Explorer: No longer available
Metrics (Preview): No longer available
servers: No longer available
Browser: No longer available
Troubleshooting guides : No longer available
Workloads: No longer available

Few New Additions in Azure Monitor

New options in Azure Monitor

Lets look into Networks, its going to show lot many new options such as

  • Load Balancers
  • Network Interfaces
  • Network Security groups
  • Public IP’s
  • Traffic Manager Profiles
  • Virtual Networks (Vnets)

If i click on LoadBalancer it’s going to show granular info.

Granular LoadBalancer view

In a similar fashion if you want granular info related with Public IP addresses, you can view as below. its going to show

  • TCP packets Dropped DDos
  • UDP packets Dropped DDoS
  • TCP bytes Dropped DDoS
  • UDP bytes Dropped DDoS

Keyvault

Keyvault- request failures

In more granular about those failure numbers you can see on which API operation it failed

Azure RedisCache Monitoring

Azure Redis cache Monitor

Now if i want to see in granular click on Cache Misses and it’s going to show in depth info

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Prashanth Kumar
Prashanth Kumar

Written by Prashanth Kumar

IT professional with 20+ years experience, feel free to contact me at: Prashanth.kumar.ms@outlook.com

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