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Monitoring Application Insights

Each Application Insights instance is presented as a self-monitored Resource where included in the Nodinite Monitor Views;

This page provides documentation about Application Insights Monitoring options using Nodinite from one or more role-based Monitor Views. Nodinite monitors the state of the Application Insights configurations. You can manage the Application Insights instances; Remote commands are available as Actions to help you swiftly address reported problems. The Remote Actions are detailed on the Managing Application Insights page.
Application Insights as Resources
Example list of monitored Application Insights instances in a Nodinite Monitor View.

Monitoring Features

  • State Evaluation - Provide state evaluation according to pre-defined policy.

    If Nodinite can't check your Application Insights items' state, chances are no one else can use them either.

  • Automatic Discovery of Application Insights.
  • Category-based monitoring - The monitored Resources groups by the Nodinite concept of Categories.
  • Share access to individual items from within Nodinite using one or more role-based Monitor Views.

State evaluation for Application Insights items

The configured Application Insights to monitor manifests within Nodinite as one or more Resources. For example, if you have three Application Insights instances, you will have three Resources in Nodinite.

  • The Nodinite Resources name is the same as the deployed Application Insights instance name.
  • Monitored Application Insights instances belong to 'Application Insights' Category:

Many other Azure related Categories exists as well, please review the Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview

  • The Application name is created with the following pattern: Subscription name/Resource Group Name

Each item (presented in Nodinite as a Resource) evaluates with a state (i.e. OK, Warning, Error, Unavailable).

You can override the evaluation process by configuring the Expected State option available for all Nodinite Resources.

Application Insights

For Application Insights Resources, the state evaluates as described in the table below:

State Status Description Actions
Unavailable Resource not available
  • Evaluation of the 'Application Insights' is not possible either due to network or security-related problems
Review prerequisites
Error Error threshold is breached N/A
Warning Warning threshold is breached API key is invalid, or is not set Manage API Key
OK Within user-defined thresholds Details
Execute Query

Alert history for Application Insights

During root cause analysis or other purposes, it might be helpful to understand how often your Application Insights problems happen. If your Monitor View allows it, you can search for historical state changes for the provided time-span either for all your Application Insights or individually. This topic is further detailed within the generic instructions on how to Add or manage Monitor View page.

Search Resource history

Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View

Alert history for the selected Application Insights item

Frequently asked questions

Use the troubleshooting guide to find the FAQ and answers to known problems.

How do I create an access key for use with Application Insights

These steps are well documented in the following user guide: API Key.


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