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Appinsights Instrumentation

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microsoft·vlatest·cloud·MIT

AppInsights Instrumentation monitors your apps’ performance and health, providing valuable insights for DevOps teams to troubleshoot issues quickly.

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    $ npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill appinsights-instrumentation -a claude-code

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skills/appinsights-instrumentation/SKILL.md
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About this skill

What it does

The Microsoft App Insights Instrumentation skill enables developers to integrate and configure Application Insights into their applications for monitoring performance, tracking errors, and analyzing user behavior. It provides tools for logging telemetry data, setting up custom metrics, and configuring sampling rates.

When to use it

  • When deploying a new application and needing real-time insights into its performance.
  • When troubleshooting issues in production by examining logs and exceptions.
  • When optimizing application performance based on usage patterns and response times.

Key capabilities

  • Telemetry data collection for requests, dependencies, and exceptions
  • Custom event and metric tracking
  • Sampling configuration to reduce telemetry volume
  • Integration with Azure Monitor for centralized logging and analysis

Example prompts

  • "Instrument my ASP.NET Core application with Application Insights."
  • "Set up custom metrics for user login events in the app."
  • "Configure sampling rate to 10% for production traffic."

Tips & gotchas

  • Ensure your application has proper Azure resources configured before using this skill.
  • Sampling can affect data accuracy, so adjust it carefully based on your needs.