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appinsights-instrumentation

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Instrument Apps with Azure Application Insights

Application teams need consistent telemetry setup across languages and Azure hosting services. This skill provides targeted SDK, infrastructure, environment, and query guidance for Application Insights.

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Using "appinsights-instrumentation". Should I instrument an ASP.NET Core app hosted on Azure App Service automatically or with the SDK?

Expected outcome:

  • Check whether the runtime and App Service configuration support portal auto-instrumentation.
  • Prefer automatic instrumentation when supported and no custom telemetry pipeline is required.
  • Use the SDK when custom spans, processors, or application-level controls are needed.

Using "appinsights-instrumentation". What should I configure for Application Insights in a Node.js service?

Expected outcome:

  • Install the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry package.
  • Load configuration before initializing telemetry, then initialize before other instrumented modules.
  • Provide the connection string through deployment configuration or a managed secret reference.
  • Deploy and verify requests, dependencies, exceptions, and service role names.

Using "appinsights-instrumentation". How can I investigate repeated restarts in Azure Container Apps?

Expected outcome:

  • Review built-in restart metrics and Container Apps system logs.
  • Group restart events by application and revision over a relevant time window.
  • Correlate revision changes with console errors, scaling activity, and trace failures.

Security Audit

Safe
v5 • 7/23/2026 Open versioned report

The reviewed patterns are documentation and examples for Azure Application Insights. Relative links, Azure CLI substitutions, portal URLs, and environment reads do not demonstrate traversal, reconnaissance, or unauthorized secret access. No prompt injection or malicious intent was found.

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Files scanned
570
Lines analyzed
0
Review items
0
False positives ignored

Risk Factors

📁 Filesystem access (2)
references/aspnetcore.md:19 references/aspnetcore.md:27
🌐 Network access (2)
references/auto.md:10 references/container-apps.md:81
⚙️ External commands (2)
references/container-apps.md:10-12 references/container-apps.md:14-16
🔑 Env variables (3)
references/nodejs.md:15 references/sdk/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-ts.md:15 references/sdk/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-ts.md:15
No confirmed security findings were detected by the latest completed static and semantic audit. This does not prove the skill has no side effects.
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Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High
73
Architecture
90
Maintainability
87
Content
69
Community
91
Spec Compliance

What You Can Build

Plan SDK Instrumentation

Select the appropriate Application Insights setup and initialization order for a supported application stack.

Configure Azure Observability

Plan Application Insights, Log Analytics, environment variables, and infrastructure changes for an Azure workload.

Diagnose Container Apps

Use metrics, logs, traces, and KQL guidance to assess Azure Container Apps observability.

Try These Prompts

Choose an Instrumentation Method 
Explain whether my [language] application hosted on [service] supports automatic instrumentation. Compare it with manual SDK setup.
Create a Manual Setup Plan 
Plan Application Insights instrumentation for my [framework] application on [Azure service]. Include package, initialization, configuration, and deployment steps.
Review Azure Infrastructure 
Review my Application Insights and Log Analytics design for [workload]. Identify required Bicep or Azure CLI changes and configuration risks.
Design Distributed Observability 
Design tracing and diagnostics for [services] on Azure Container Apps. Cover correlation, sampling, Dapr, role naming, and useful KQL investigations.

Best Practices

  • Confirm the application language, framework, and hosting environment before choosing an instrumentation method.
  • Keep connection values in managed configuration or secret references, and never commit real values.
  • Initialize telemetry early, then validate traces, dependencies, logs, sampling, and service identity after deployment.

Avoid

  • Do not hardcode connection values in source files or infrastructure examples.
  • Avoid full production sampling without evaluating traffic volume, cost, and diagnostic requirements.
  • Do not treat infrastructure metrics as a replacement for application traces and dependency telemetry.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which application stacks are covered?
The main guides cover ASP.NET Core, Node.js, and Python, with shorter TypeScript, Python exporter, Java, and Container Apps references.
When should I use automatic instrumentation?
Use it for supported Azure App Service runtimes when standard telemetry is sufficient and application code changes are unnecessary.
Can this skill modify my application?
It primarily provides guidance and reference material. Its instructions direct component addition and project modification requests to azure-prepare.
How should I store the Application Insights connection string?
Use deployment environment configuration or a managed secret reference. Do not place real values in source control.
Does it cover Azure Container Apps?
Yes. It covers Log Analytics, built-in metrics, SDK setup, distributed tracing, Dapr, and diagnostic KQL queries.
What access is needed for the Azure CLI examples?
You need Azure CLI authentication and permissions to read, create, or update the referenced Azure resources.

Developer Details

Author

microsoft

License

MIT

Author version

v0.0.0-placeholder

Skillstore revision

r2

Repository

https://github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/tree/main/plugin/skills/appinsights-instrumentation/

Ref

ebdfe608f5de2b66ff37ab4af12af8ac4f5e8006

Maintenance freshness

7/25/2026

Usage

14 downloads · 122 views

File structure

📁 examples/

📄 appinsights.bicep

📄 LICENSE.txt

📁 references/

📄 aspnetcore.md

📄 auto.md

📄 container-apps.md

📄 nodejs.md

📄 python.md

📁 sdk/

📄 azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter-java.md

📄 azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter-py.md

📄 azure-monitor-opentelemetry-py.md

📄 azure-monitor-opentelemetry-ts.md

📁 scripts/

📄 appinsights.ps1

📄 SKILL.md

📄 version.json

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