Analyzing data

Now that we have set up Application Insights telemetry collection on both the server side and the application side, we can try and make sense of this data.

While the Azure portal provides quick insights into application telemetry data, if we want to really dive into application data, the Application Insights portal should be used for analysis. In the Application Insights portal, data can be analyzed using the query language. The query language, also known as the Kusto language, provides advanced read-only querying features that can help organize data from multiple sources and render valuable insights into the performance and usage patterns of your application.

For instance, let's take a look at the following simple query, which is executed on our Xamarin telemetry data. We are returning the first 50 custom events that are exported from App Center:

customEvents 
| limit 50

These telemetry entries contain general telemetry-related data in the root:

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