Application Insights

Editor's Notes

• #8 There are a bunch of interesting new capabilities so lets get started with the first area: Intelligent APM As modern app developers, we all know how crucial it is to detect, triage and diagnose problems before they start affecting our customers. With Application Insights you get all the tools to make your diagnostics experience smarter and find and fix problems before your customers know it! Detect: One of the most crucial things is to be able to detect issues as soon as they happen, and be alerted instantaneously. However, the issue with alerts is that it requires you to have a threshold and more often than not, you don’t have any idea. Moreover, in the complexity of modern app architecture, even an army of analysts sitting in front of a dashboard cannot detect all the different things that can go wrong. That is where proactive diagnostics come into play. With our Machine Learning based technology, you can be alerted on real time service disruptions and anomalous patterns in your app performance and behavior, with thresholds constantly evolving based on your app architecture and performance patterns. With dashboards you can pin all the charts and KPIs across your Azure resources at a single place and share with your colleagues. You can also take advantage of the new live stream metrics to see what is going on with your application metrics at this right very moment. Triage: Once you detect an issue, the next thing is to figure out its impact and whether it is priority enough to solve right now. With Application insights you can find out the real user impact of any exception and take decisions accordingly. With the new Application Map you can automatically detect your application topology across dependencies and client & server side components. You can find the impact assessment and click through to underlying Azure resources to find the right information. Diagnose: Once you decide to fix an issue, you need all the context to solve it, and with our out-of-the box telemetry collection, you will have all the data you need. What’s more, if you are developing Azure Cloud Services or App Services, you can get much deeper diagnostics information, covering some of the role lifecycle issues and other performance problems.Operationalize: Once you have been through the Detect, Triage & Diagnose cycle, you can set up your own custom alerts based on the thresholds you discovered and keep being on top of things!
• #9 OK! So, lets get to our next area: Analytics As we mentioned in the beginning, Analytics is a new capability in Application Insights we just announced at Build. And, I should say it is one of my most favorites. In a modern app architecture with various tiers and components, it is often very difficult to diagnose problems or gaps across the entire app stack unless you can connect the various perspectives. With our new big data query engine, you can do that very easily and find all the answers to do the root-cause analyses. You can ask ad-hoc queries across your entire app telemetry and even do full text search to discover the right data sets.
• #10 What powers the Analytics experience is a powerful query language we launched as well. Read through the points… And the best thing with Application Insights is that since we collect telemetry across your application stack, you can correlate data across your Service Performance, Business Metrics and Customer Experience and generate unique insights helping you answer tough questions almost instantly. To put it in perspective, some very high scale Microsoft services are using it today sending us Terabytes of data over which they can get answers to their queries in as little as a few seconds. E.g. internally the service ingests over 1 trillion events and 600TB a day of log data across hundreds of Microsoft cloud services.  Yes, 600TB a day – that’s many petabytes of retained log storage in just one month.
• #11 Lets switch gears to our 3rd area: DevOps. As developers we would be using one or the other dev environment and have some DevOps workflows that we would be using! Having the diagnostics experience integrated with our existing practices makes it so very easy and useful! If you use Visual Studio or Visual Studio Team Services, there are a bunch of integration points that you can take advantage of.
• #12 What also makes Application Insights powerful is how it is designed to be flexible and extensible to help you get insights suited to your particular needs.
• #14 What powers the Analytics experience is a powerful query language we launched as well. Read through the points… And the best thing with Application Insights is that since we collect telemetry across your application stack, you can correlate data across your Service Performance, Business Metrics and Customer Experience and generate unique insights helping you answer tough questions almost instantly. To put it in perspective, some very high scale Microsoft services are using it today sending us Terabytes of data over which they can get answers to their queries in as little as a few seconds. E.g. internally the service ingests over 1 trillion events and 600TB a day of log data across hundreds of Microsoft cloud services.  Yes, 600TB a day – that’s many petabytes of retained log storage in just one month.
• #15 What powers the Analytics experience is a powerful query language we launched as well. Read through the points… And the best thing with Application Insights is that since we collect telemetry across your application stack, you can correlate data across your Service Performance, Business Metrics and Customer Experience and generate unique insights helping you answer tough questions almost instantly. To put it in perspective, some very high scale Microsoft services are using it today sending us Terabytes of data over which they can get answers to their queries in as little as a few seconds. E.g. internally the service ingests over 1 trillion events and 600TB a day of log data across hundreds of Microsoft cloud services.  Yes, 600TB a day – that’s many petabytes of retained log storage in just one month.