Exploring Application Insights

In the past, large enterprises developed frameworks that were difficult to adapt and connect. Building monitoring frameworks required significant development 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 for developers. Application Insights collects all possible insights about application performance and user activity.

Collecting user activities has not always been a trivial task. Eventually, activities and visits can be used for modeling user behavior with AI services such as Azure Personalizer. Leveraging AI services to improve user experience and sales are common in the modern world. This is why services for collecting user footprints such as Application Insights are...