SKILL

appinsights-instrumentation

Guidance for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights. Provides telemetry patterns, SDK setup, and configuration references. WHEN: how to instrument app, App Insights SDK, telemetry patterns, what is App Insights, Application Insights guidance, instrumentation examples, APM best practices.

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  • AppInsights Instrumentation Guide
  • When to Use This Skill
  • When to Use azure-prepare Instead
  • Prerequisites
  • Guidelines
  • Collect context information
  • Prefer auto-instrument if possible
  • Manually instrument

This skill provides guidance and reference material for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights. ⛔ ADDING COMPONENTS? If the user wants to add App Insights to their app, invoke azure-prepare instead. This skill provides reference material—azure-prepare orchestrates the actual changes. User asks how to instrument (guidance, patterns, examples) User needs SDK setup instructions azure-prepare invokes this skill during research phase User wants to understand App Insights concepts User says "add telemetry to my app" User says "add App Insights" User wants to modify their project Any request to change/add components The app in the workspace must be one of these kinds An ASP.NET Core app hosted in Azure An Azure Container App A Node.js app hosted in Azure A Python app hosted in Azure Find out the (programming language, application framework, hosting) tuple of the application the user is trying to add telemetry support in. This determines how the application can be instrumented. Read the source code to make an educated guess. Confirm with the user on anything you don't know. You must always ask the user where the application is hosted (e.g. on a personal computer, in an Azure

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microsoft/skills
Source file
.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/appinsights-instrumentation/SKILL.md
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