Exploring Application Insights

Back in the day, it was always difficult to collect user activity and performance information about a classic web application hosted on-premises or with a hosting provider. Large enterprises developed their own frameworks, which were difficult to adapt and connect. Implementing new monitoring and reporting activities also required significant support effort. Now, the monitoring and telemetry challenge has been successfully solved by connecting to a lightweight service hosted in Azure. The service is easy to adapt and extend and is available for multiple platforms and languages. This service is named Application Insights, which accurately describes what the service provides to developers. Application Insights collects all possible insights about application performance and user activity.

Application Insights is a well-known telemetry framework that collects data from instrumented application code and tracks application activities, performance, custom...