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.
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.
- The Nodinite Azure Agent makes use of the Azure Rest API. Hence, instances presents automatically.
- 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 |
|
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.