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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Show traces in End-To-End view
The End-To-End view currently displays requests, dependencies and exceptions. It would be nice with an option to also display traces in the timeline, instead of having to click the "View all telemetry" button, and viewing them as a long list.
This will especially improve readability for parallel sub-operations, which is very hard in a long list view, and relatively easy in the fold/unfold view of the timeline.
As there can sometimes be many traces, it would be nice with an option to select a severity level filter.
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Shared queries destination for multiple resource groups
There should be a way to either share queries across multiple resource groups on the same subscription, or at least batch exporting/importing in the analytics blade. It's common to deploy several instances of an application to different resource groups as different sandboxes/environments, but typically we'd be interested in displaying analytics data uniformly across all environments.
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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.
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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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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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Dependency tracking for Azure Cosmos DB with TCP mode
According to the documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/asp-net-dependencies#automatically-tracked-dependencies only HTTP calls are tracked as dependency for Azure Cosmos DB and TCP mode is not supported. Please, add support to track dependency calls to Cosmos DB when Direct TCP mode is used.
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Parameterized Kusto Queries via REST API
Parameterized queries in the Kusto Query Language are a great way to mitigate injection attacks. This is already available in other offerings that support KQL. It would be nice if the Application Insights REST API offered this ability as well.
9 votesThanks for your feedback and its 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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Add exception details like call stack to Alert emails natofication
How to add exception details in alert mail notification. I only get links to redirect to azure portal.
9 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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Export user flow graph as png/jpg/pdf
There should be an option to export the user flow graph to an image or a PDF, so it can be shared with colleagues who don't have and need not have Azure access.
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Export past events in same format as continuous export
After I turn on continuous export I would like to do a one time pull of event data that occurred before continuous export was enabled. This feature would export the data in the same format provided by continuous export to make it easy to ingest into a downstream reporting system.
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Application Map Live option
Application Map Live option
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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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unminify - add support for multiple apps
While hosting multiple frontend apps and deploying them one per app service, in case they share the same folder and filename structure the feature does not work currently if we use a single app insights instance.
The same folder and filename structure is typical for every frontend framework nowadays.
Example:
https://app1.com/js/main.js
https://app2.com/js/main.jsIn this case the last deployed jsmap files will be the only ones accessible and debugging will become more confusing than helpful.
Please add support for this as it seems a core functionality that might have been overlooked.
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Add a collapse all command in the End-to-end transaction details
Add a collapse all command in the End-to-end transaction details
8 votesThanks for your feedback and its 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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When exporting the arm template the availability tests should be included.
when creating an ARM template for application insight it is very problematic to find any information on how to write the template in such a way that the availability tests are included. The export template does not result in the arm script for this.
after a while i figured out that the export template on resourcegroup level does do this.
however it is very unclear what properties to use in the arm tempalte for this. The microsoft.insights/webtests.Configuration xml is not clearly documented. And it seems some values are not taken from this but from the microsoft.insights/webtests.properties (e.g timeout,enabled,etc).
could this…
8 votesThanks for your feedback and its 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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Log blocking function at Application insights side
Application Insights uses the Application Insights Instrumentation Key to freely collect logs for different subscriptions and environments.
At the same time, unnecessary logs may be uploaded if the Application Insights Instrumentation Key is known.Therefore, it is necessary for Application Insights to have a function to identify the resources to which logs are to be transferred and to block those resources that are not required for monitoring.
8 votesThank you for the feedback, can you please help expand your scenario , expectation is that we only share Application Insights Instrumentation Key from those who there telemetry events be sent to Application insights instance , however when you say unnecessary logs may be uploaded it would be helpful if you can explain your scenario so that our team can further evaluate the feedback
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Disable & Enable Application Insights as Needed
Need an option to Disable a specific instance of Application Insights and Azure Monitor during a planned Maintenance Window and then the ability to re-enable it when needed. Could not find such an option on the Azure Portal. Currently it is only possible to stop telemetry by changing the web.config file of the app but nothing on the server side on the Application Insights instance.
8 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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Support better deep linking to blades
Right now one can copy the URL in paste it somewhere for others to click on to go immediately to a blade item in Application Insights, such as an exception. However, the link is very long and sometimes when users go straight to the URL it doesn't load correctly the first time. It would be nice if there was a "share" link or something similar where we could get a shorter url and if going straight to the urls loaded correctly the first time.
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Application Insights in North Central US
We have restrictions that all our disaster recovery resources should be created in "North Central US" region. As a result, we are not able to use Application Insights. Are there any plans on having app insights for North Central US region?
8 votesStarted, target though is late summer, early fall.
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Add a server filter to the Live Metrics Stream
On the Live Metrics Stream it would be useful to be able to view the metrics for a subset of servers. Currently it is only possible to view all servers together or a single server.
For example, if I had a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) representing servers hosting an application gateway and another VMSS representing servers hosting back end microservices, I would like to be able to select all gateway servers to view metrics for the combined set of gateway servers.
8 votes
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