Azure Monitor-Application Insights
Welcome to the Azure Application Insights UserVoice site. This site is for suggestions and ideas for all aspects of Application Insights such as our SDKs, Web tests, Analytics, etc. We look forward to hearing from you!
The Application Insights team
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Ability do embed dashboard to third party applications. E.g. CMS. Including Quick Pulse
Many of our clients would love to see the amazing reports we can generate in App Insights from with in their web application e.g. CMS. Although it would be possible to build these dashboards manually using the API, it would be much more feasible to just get an embed code for the metrics graphs ans list created in the Azure Portal.
This should also include the live streaming Quick Pulse.12 votes -
Failover for Application Insight as part of Disaster Recovery Plan
We do not see fail-over mechanism for Application insight which should work for Disaster Recovery Plan. Seems DR still not supported by Application insight, below link for reference -
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/resiliency/recovery-loss-azure-region12 votes -
Add a priority level for all traced events
There should be a priority level that indicates the relative priority of the data.
The priority level of a tracked item should be possible to set on an item by item basis, or by more general declarative rules.High priority data should be retained for longer time and care should be taken to make sure no high priority data is lost anywhere.
Example of use case:
You might want to mark events when a user change/request a new password longer than a metric of time taken for a storage request.12 votesHaving different retention policies for different telemetry items is a very interesting feature request. Enabling this is fundamentally non-trivial, so please keep upvoting and including the use cases where this is necessary. Please keep in mind that you can today ensure retention longer than 90d by using continuous export to archive subsets of the telemetry to external storages/data warehouses of your choice.
Best, Michael
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Create REST api for custom tracking i.e. trackEvent, trackView
Create a REST api which will allow tracking methods to be called via a REST api.
E.g POST methods for creating custom events https://dev.applicationinsights.io/api/trackevent
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Add Seconday Axis to Charts in Analytics
I have 3 output columns TimeStamp(datetime), JobRunDuration (int), RowsProcessed (int)
When I use “render timechart” AI is showing me the two Int values on same axis.
It would be great if a secondary axis could be added to charts so that two values could be represented in same chat.12 votes -
Support a single unified solution for n-Tier Windows Desktop & Server Applications
Application Insights has become significantly less useful since the decision to fragment the telemetry experience by pointing rich client applications at HockeyApp and restricting AI to ASP.NET scenarios.
For Enterprise Development Scenarios we would like to be able to use a single supported solution that works consistently across n-Tier applications built using the full range of currently supported Microsoft Platforms (.NET & Win32 Desktop Applications, Windows Services, WCF Services).
In practise this is still just about possible by using the low level AI SDK, but increasingly Windows Desktop apps are being locked out of new features e.g. the Visual Studio…
12 votesThank you for raising this issue. Addressing this is a long-term problem that should be addressed. While this will not be solved in the near future, improving this situation is something under discussion. I will keep this suggestion updated with any progress.
Regards,
Dale -
Raise the 500,000 row limit on the Azure Log Analytics REST API
https://dev.loganalytics.io/documentation/Using-the-API/Limits currently lists 500,000 as the limit in the number of rows a query can return. It would be helpful if we could raise this limit to make it easier to create PowerBI dashboards which slice and dice historical data, where in aggregate the raw data exceeds 500k rows. In practice this allows the dashboards to look further back in time.
11 votesThanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote & comment on. This allows us to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature backlog and also gives us insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature.
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Funnels - where is Export to Power BI button?
According to docs[1] I should be able to export a funnel to power BI.
So I wonder why this option is missing from my funnel toolbar.
There is a Share url option but that looks way less useful than the missing one.11 votes -
Enable the creation of Annotations in VSTS linux agents
Adding the release annotation task on a Linux agent throws the following error:
[error]A supported task execution handler was not found. This error usually means the task does not carry an implementation that is compatible with your current operating system. Contact the task author for more details.
Write the release task to support Linux or OS agnostic.
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Application Insights - User Flows export to PowerBI
It would be greate to have an export of the User Flows to PowerBI.
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Update more frequently pinned to a Dashboard charts created in Analytics
As a DevOps I need to observe aggregation of custom metrics showing the pulse of the system, which can be very nicely implemented via a query in App Insights\Analytics but if you pin them on a Dashboard they will update only hourly.
We need an option for auto-refresh on such tiles/charts pinned on dashboard to be refreshed each 1-5 minutes.
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Populate client_browser and client_os for requests (not just pageviews)
We're using AI to monitor our Web API and want to analyse the various client applications that connect to it. We'd hoped to use UserAgent - the clients set the User-Agent header, with product, version and OS information.
However, it seems that only telemetry that's marked as a PageView has the UserAgent parsed into 'clientBrowser' and 'clientOS' - any Request telemetry has those properties empty. (Despite the Analytics schema having those properties.)
Are we taking the wrong approach? Or should AI actually be setting these properties for requests?
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Error message of delete failure should be more specific.
Even just the App Insights resource is locked to prevent to be deleted, we can't determine it since the error message is as below.
"Could not deleted
Could not delete application"The message should be more specific like as other resources such as Web Apps.
11 votesWe’re slotting this into our backlog.
Thanks
Dale -
Application Insights: Added Aggregation Type "Median" to Metric Charts
For Metric Charts there are options Sum, Min, Max, Avg.
An additional option Median would be often helpful because it is resistant against outliers.
(The median is the number separating the higher half of values from the lower half.)
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filter app map based on tag or environment
App Map as well as metrics can get cluttered with dev/test and even local machine data. While you could use different app insights keys, it would also be helpful to easily tag an environment and then easily filter out an environment on app map and other visualizations
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Add Release Annotations to the Performance/Failures views
Would be great if you could see Release Annotations from Dependencies as well.
10 votes -
Validate HTTPS connection in URL Ping test
I found current URL Ping test doesn't validate the HTTPS connection, e.g. if the SSL certificate's subject doesn't match the domain, the URL ping test will still pass. Sometimes if the SSL certificate expires, I'd like the URL Ping test fails so I can get the notification about it, because the end users will get the error when they access the URL with web browser.
Please Do consider it.
10 votesThis is planned for single URL tests (not multi-step tests), for early 2020. We are planning to have two modes:
a. fail test if SSL negotiation fails
b. fail test if SSL cert is about to expireFor (b), what config options would be you be interested in? Fail if cert will expire in 7 days, 30 days, 90 days?
-Morgan
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Allow us to clear and/or acknowledge the SmartInsights alerts once we've reviewed them. Otherwise it's unnecessary clutter.
Allow SmartDetect notifications in the portal to be acknowledged/cleared
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Support for on-prem
It would be great to use Application Insights for on-premises scenarios as well.
10 votesHello,
Can you elaborate what specifically is needed? Application Insights can monitor on-prem services. It is really agnostic about where your application is hosted.
Thanks
Dale -
Allow pinned Analytics Dashboard Charts to click through to event search view.
One of the great features of Application Insights is the ability to drill down into the data by clicking through the metrics charts to create new filtered search blades.
Many useful built in portal tiles have been removed recently (e.g. 'Top Crashes' showing Impacted User Count); Analytics allows us to recreate the same view on a dashboard in a more general way but the pinned chart does not have the same "drill down" abilities to the data that the old built in tiles had.
It would be great if there was an option to allow clicking through the pinned charts…
10 votesThank you for the great suggestion! The team is currently heads down with a lot of other work, but we have a set of dashboarding improvements in mind in the next few months. We’ll update the status to “in progress” once we get going on these.
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