Hands-On Azure for Developers

Using the Application Insights service

One of the most important features when developing applications (especially hosted in the cloud) is the ability to easily monitor them and detect at an early stage any possible issues and flaws. To do so, you need a whole architecture of loggers, storage, and report tools, which you have to integrate, configure, and maintain daily. This requires an additional set of skills in your team and, of course, takes time—the bigger your application is, the more is required. With Azure Application Insights, all those operations are much simpler: you have a single service and endpoint for logging all required information, and the rest is done for you automatically.