Summary
In this chapter, we covered the comprehensive capabilities of Application Insights, a component of Azure Monitor. We began exploring its automatic and manual instrumentation capabilities, which allow developers to collect detailed telemetry data without significant code changes. We then moved on to the practical aspects of instrumenting code for monitoring, covering the setup process and the benefits of integrating Application Insights into a .NET Core application.
The chapter also highlighted the importance of diagnostics implementation for maintaining application health. We examined how to implement effective diagnostics to quickly identify and resolve issues impacting reliability and performance.
Tracing techniques were another critical focus, as we discussed the use of correlation IDs and parent IDs to track the flow of requests across distributed systems. These techniques help in understanding the execution flow and interactions within the application.
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