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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Character encodings supported by Application Insights
It would be nice if it is clarified which character encoding is supported by Application Insights and SDKs.
We may want to send telemetry with application logs via LogBack and AI Appender but the log may have multi-bytes local language characters.5 votes -
Ability to exclude specific requests from Performance Preview Blade in Azure Portal
This Performance (Preview) blade in the Azure Portal is super helpful.
One suggestion though: we have lots of very frequent (and fast) requests to a health check resource which is pinged by the load balancer and also used for the availability tests which run every 1 minute from 4 different locations.
These requests totally pollute the statistics.
Is it possible to filter out specific requests?
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Add optional resource group filter to Live Metrics Stream
I would like to narrow my view down to only a single resource group when viewing the Live Metrics Stream. In my case I have similar assets deployed to different resource groups. Seeing them all together is good, but I would also like to see one (resource group's worth) at a time.
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Allow auditing of Application Insights activity
Support the ability to audit and view who is using various features in AI, ad hoc queries that are run, what information was viewed, etc. Perhaps feed this information into Azure Activity Logs or similar. This information can then be used for certain auditing scenarios as well as usage and behavior information.
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Capture Region of Executing Process as part of analytics data
In the analytics schema, we have fields cloud_RoleName and cloud_RoleInstance. When an application is deployed to multiple regions and each deployment is using a single instrumentation key, it would be useful to split data by the cloud geographic region that processed the telemetry,
e.g. cloud_GeoRegion, to contain data such as 'West Europe', 'West US', 'UK West' etc.
This would apply to any of the schemas, where cloud_RoleName and cloud_RoleInstance are recorded.
5 votesSergey might be able to help you find ways to do this on your own. But we don’t have any plans to do this automatically in the App Insights SDK, given the breadth and telemetry size consequences of that kind of change.
- David from the App Insights team
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Expose a "Application Insights Component Reader" Role Definition
In the same way you expose the "Application Insights Component Contributor" role, expose a new role that give access to Overview and all other parts of AI (including Analytics) in a read-only fashion
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Enable ARM configuration of custom schema (open schema)
We create an AI resource on customers behalf, but haven’t found a way to create a data source in the resource
5 votesThis is still on the backlog as part of an effort at making all aspects of managing App Insights resources possible programmatically but there is not ETA at this point.
Thanks
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Show different trace colors based on severity
On the Search blade, all of the Traces are green, whether or not the level is Informational, Warning, Error, etc. It would be nice if you could change it so that Debug was blue, Informational was green, Warning was yellow, Error was red, etc. to make it easier to distinguish the different levels in the list.
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Send Smart Detection on performance degradation in time
Smart Detection about operation performance degradation sent on daily basis, the ask is to send the notification when the degradation happens.
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Capture Screen Resolution is missing
You used to be able to get Screen Resolution by creating a new Session chart and Grouping By "Screen Resolution". This option is no longer there! How can find this info now so it can help me make decisions (please don't let it be send custom events... i need to look at my current historic data)?
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Enable more cohort analysis tools in Application Insights
We are using AI for assessing the usage of features using custom events, but better ways of seeing changes in usage over time within Application Insights queries would be beneficial (new chart types and cohort groupings)
5 votesCan you give more examples of the kinds of cohort analysis and visualization tools you’re looking for? If you haven’t already, check out the Cohorts tool (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/app-insights-usage-cohorts) and the Retention tool (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/app-insights-usage-retention)
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Add the ability to define tags when creating VSTS Work Items in Application Insights
By adding the ability of including tags with a Work Item for VSTS in the Application Insights workflow, this will allow teams to have better query granularity with work that is defined by events in Application Insights.
5 votesThere is no effort on this integration for the foreseeable future, so moving this status to unplanned.
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Preserve Time Range
When browsing around charts on Azure, they all seem to default to 24-hour time range. I almost always want a 30 minute time range because I'm usually looking at charts when I am trying to diagnose an issue. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Azure remembers this setting and it seems to be stored separately per blade so I find myself spending a lot of time just switching the granularity.
Ideally, Azure would apply some machine learning and magically figure out what I want and adjust the defaults accordingly. More realistically, I would like to be able to setup a site-wide…
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url referral
Need url referral on pageViews, and requests. How to keep track where the visitor come from?
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Track CDN metrics in Application Insights
I want to collect my telemetry data for my cdn and be able to tell
- my overall cdn metrics for my app integrated in my solution
- if I have a gain when enabling cdn
- where I should leverage cdn5 votes -
Add feature to accept insights data only sent from domain in the allowed list
If somebody takes my Instrumentation key, they can use it to upload junk data to my App Insights.
With Google Analytics you can create a white list of domains from which data will be accepted. Any data incoming from any other domain is simply rejected.
I was hoping for AI to have this as well, but I didn't find it in my settings...
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Set Custom Properties order by Properties Name
Set Custom Properties order by Properties Name
Now,it is not orderby4 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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Bring back favorites for search (including pinning to dashboard)
We used "Search" to create multiple filtered queries and pinned them to the dashboard. Since several week it is not possible to edit favorites or to create new favorites. Pinning filtered queries is no more possible.
Please, bring back this feature4 votesThanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote which 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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gelf Graylog format support for streaming logs to Application Insights
gelf is Graylog Extended Format
There is an official and widely used logging driver for Docker based on gelf see https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/gelf/
This idea would enable sending the log output (console output) of a docker container via gelf to Application Insights (log-aggregation) n a direct fashion.
There exists a custom way to achieve this which is however quite hacky, as blogged at https://lbadri.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/sending-docker-container-logs-to-azure-application-insights-using-gelf-driver/
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Ability to group availability tests
We have a long list of availability tests for each one of our production environments (PROD, Staging, DR, etc). I would be nice to be able to group/visualize them - a two-level hierarchy should be fine
4 votes
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