App Insights Performance Monitoring

In Edge Show episode 135, interview on Microsoft's new updates to Application Insights including app performance monitoring and other telemetry with Rahul Bagaria, Program Manager at Microsoft.

More specifically at [00:40], we cover:

• What are the big changes which have recently happened with Application Insights?
• [02:20] How is application performance monitoring different now than utilizing the existing microsoft monitoring agent?
• [03:36] What is all of the telemetry you get if you use only the status monitor agent?
• [04:33] Demo: Installing and configuring the status monitor agent on an Azure VM
• [07:31] Demo: How you might be able to automate the agent installation to multiple nodes utilizing the vm extension and implications using this option versus the manual install
• [09:30] What telemetry do get if you utilize only the code addition? 
• [10:25] Demo: Adding the App Insights code to the app in Visual Studio IDE
• [12:15] Demo: What data / telemetry do you get back inside the Azure portal?
• [13:57] Demo: Solving a failed request problem with a SQL database call
• [17:34] Demo: Solving a performance problem with website .Net code
• [18:38] Demo: How might I setup automated alerts and file these issues / bugs into the developer backlog?

• Application Insights User Voice forum for product feedback
• Application Insights free trial
• Get Started with Application Insights

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