Instrumenting code for monitoring
Instrumentation is a crucial process for monitoring and understanding the performance and behavior of your application in a production environment. By adding specific code to your application, you can collect detailed diagnostic data, including performance metrics, error logs, and trace information.
The Application Insights data model is aligned with the three pillars of observability discussed in Chapter 1. It supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs as telemetry data types. Let’s explain them in more detail within the context of Application Insights.
Distributed tracing is a method used to track the flow of requests through various services and components in a distributed system. It provides a detailed view of how different services interact with each other and helps in understanding the end-to-end execution flow of a request.
In Application Insights, distributed tracing works by capturing and correlating telemetry data across...
