How do I explore telemetry with Azure Application Insights in C#?

In this guide, we will set up Azure Application Insights to provide telemetry and analytics for your application. Azure Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. It helps you monitor your live applications, detect performance anomalies, and diagnose issues.

We will use Pulumi to create and configure the necessary resources in Azure.

Key Points:

• Create an Azure Resource Group.
• Create an Azure Application Insights resource.
• Set up telemetry and analytics using Application Insights.

Below is the Pulumi program in TypeScript that accomplishes this:

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as azure from "@pulumi/azure-native";

// Create an Azure Resource Group
const resourceGroup = new azure.resources.ResourceGroup("resourceGroup", {
    resourceGroupName: "myResourceGroup",
    location: "WestEurope",
});

// Create an Azure Application Insights resource
const appInsights = new azure.insights.Component("appInsights", {
    resourceGroupName: resourceGroup.name,
    resourceName: "myAppInsights",
    location: resourceGroup.location,
    applicationType: "web",
    kind: "web",
    ingestionMode: "ApplicationInsights",
});

// Export the Application Insights Instrumentation Key
export const instrumentationKey = appInsights.instrumentationKey;

Summary:

In this guide, we used Pulumi to set up Azure Application Insights for telemetry and analytics. We created an Azure Resource Group and an Application Insights resource, and we exported the Instrumentation Key needed to configure your application for telemetry collection. This setup enables you to monitor your application’s performance and diagnose issues effectively.