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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Make data retention period configurable by data type / event content
For now data retention period is fixed to 90 days and can't be changed.
In reality telemetry events have different values and should be stored accordingly.
For example I'm interested in storing exception data only for a day or two, just to raise alerts. Trace records are needed to diagnose particular behavior\ reproduce a bug, so they should be kept just for the time I need to get this job done.
On the contrary user related events, like purchases, logins, specific actions are very valuable and should be stored for years.
These retention rules are unique to each business, so…13 votesThank you for the feedback on this feature. This is on the backlog, but not on plan for a specific delivery time yet.
-Dale -
Support Authenticated User id in usage scenarios
Support Authenticated User id in usage scenarios . For retention currently we are showing retention users value wrt userId column. It would be good if we can support userAuthenticatedId. Similarly for other usage blade like users, session, workbook, funnel etc.
13 votesCounting by authenticated users is supported in the Users, Sessions, Events, and Cohorts tools. The Retention tool doesn’t support authenticated user counting, but the “N-period retention” workbook template does…check it out in the Workbooks tool. Counting authenticated users is on the backlog for the Funnels tool, but no ETA on when it will arrive.
- David from the App Insights team
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Ensure live metrics respects the current theme
The portal looks great. Very slick. Not applying the dark theme to this cool view is jarring.
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Handle TSQL commands in the dependency blade better
In the command field in the dependency blade, long TSQL commands get truncated and remove the most important part of the statement, the FROM and WHERE clauses. Without this, the entire blade is almost useless.
It would be better to show the entire statement, or even truncate the start of the statement, rather than the end.
13 votesCan you comment on how often you are hitting the length limitation issue in your use cases?
Best, Michael
-AppInsights Product Management -
App Insight integration with Azure Key Vault
It would be great to have a tight integration of App Insight with Azure Key Vault so that it allows App Insight able to fetch credentials directly from Key Vault during run time to run the availability web tests. We don't want to hard code anything in web tests to connect to Key Vault but rather it should be able to connect and fetch required credentials from Vault and run the web tests.
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Profiler support for .Net Core Azure Functions
I would like to be able to profile a .Net Core Azure Function such that I can see a breakdown of how long each method invocation takes within the call stack so I can optimise any bottlenecks.
12 votesThanks for the feedback. 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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"service tag" for Application Insights whitelisting in NSGs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/security-overview
Create a service tag for application insights so it is easier for a user to whitelist the app insights IPs on the NSGs
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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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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
-AppInsights Product Management -
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 -
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 -
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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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.
11 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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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
10 votes
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