Getting Started with Application Insights
If the latest release of your application has a problem chances are you would prefer to know before your users flood your inbox or start complaining on social media channels. Additionally it is probably a good idea to monitor what your users get up to in your application to help you prioritise future development activities. And so to the world of diagnostics and analytics software. There are offerings from several vendors to consider in this area but as good a place to start as any is Microsoft's Application Insights. Here is a list of resources to help you understand what is can do for you:
- Application Insights Home Page
- Get started with Visual Studio Application Insights
- Application Insights MSDN Forum
- App Insights Performance Monitoring
- Application Insights on Azure Preview Portal
- Application Insights for Any App: A Must-Have Tool for Understanding Your Customers
- Fast and Powerful Diagnostics, and Problem Solving with Application Insights
At the time of writing this post Application Insights is in public preview -- see here for details. Do bear in mind that it's a chargeable service with full pricing due to take effect in June 2015.
Cheers -- Graham
