Application Insights
As we mentioned at the start of the chapter, telemetry signals are collected in external repositories in an Azure Monitor collector called Application Insights. Application Insights offers a variety of monitoring tools to provide insights into the usage and performance of web applications. For Dynamics 365 Business Central, the top three most useful ones are the following:
- Alerts
- Application dashboards
- Workbooks
Once again, please note that these are just some of the many features that Application Insights offers, and since it is a large area of investment by Microsoft, we can expect even more enhancements in the future.
Alerts
Some KQL query results might be useful to reactively send a communication that can be tailored to be informative for a partiular persona. Such messages are typically an alert for something that has happened or is about to happen. Within Application Insights, it is possible to define alerts based on...