Application-Insights

I’ve learned about a “hidden feature” recently that enables some cool scenarios. Log Analytics or Azure Data Explorer aficionados will probably know all about functions already but for Application Insights this has not been documented yet and is not visible through the Azure portal.

A customer of mine had the following rule configured: It was his expectation that this rule would be triggered when in the last five minutes at some point more that 200 requests/s were being made to the App Service. Unfortunately this is not the case. The rule will sum the number of requests for the last five minutes and if that number is > 200 the rule will trigger.

In a time before cross-resource queries were possible the Application Insights Connector would copy data from Application Insights to a Log Analytics workspace. With the emergence of cross-resource queries the duplication of data is not required anymore as queries can be sent to both (or even more) entities at the same time in real time.

Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash Since Friday May 25th 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect across Europe. It governs how data should be processed and provides extensive rights to the person which data is used.