Configuring Application Insights
We will now deploy Application Insights. In this exercise, we will create a new web application service that we can associate with the Applications Insights resource and see the incoming data.
Creating your application
We will now deploy an application for monitoring; this application will be built from a GitHub repository and will take several minutes to provision after our code has run:
- Navigate to the Azure portal by clicking on https://portal.azure.com.
- Click the Azure CLI icon at the top right of the Azure portal to open an Azure CLI instance:
Figure 20.42 – Opening the Azure CLI
- If you have never used the CLI before, you will be required to set up storage for this. Follow the prompts on screen to configure your container on a storage account.
- When asked for the environment, you can select PowerShell. If you prefer to use Bash, then enter the following, which will open PowerShell in...
