Tools to analyze telemetry data
One of the building blocks of Azure Monitor is that APIs are fully supported. In other words, when signals are ingested into Application Insights tables, these can be accessed externally through standard interfaces. As API requirements, these are fully documented by Microsoft at Azure Monitor Log Analytics API overview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/api/overview. Let us give it a try together with the demo database first and then use our own Application Insights resource.
To consume an API, we could use a vast variety of tools; if you are familiar with APIs already, feel free to choose the one that you like or are most familiar with, including Postman or even the Dynamics 365 Business Central HttpClient data type. It is up to you. If you are a beginner or simply want to explore another tool that you are not using, let’s follow this example using yet another great Visual Studio Code extension, REST Client:
