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Monitor SharePoint usage and performance using Application Insights

Anders RaskProActive A/S

What is Application Insights

Why should I care, as a developer?

Application Lifecycle Management

Build

MeasureLearn

Knowing how people use your application lets you focus on relevant scenarios

Release annotations

Show when you added new a new build, so you can see if performance was affected

What can we monitor from?

Azure Application Insights

Web apps-ASP.NET-Java-using SDK

Azure Cloud

Services-using SDK

Windows Services

&Desktop-using SDK

Web-

JavaScript

Other-languages-frameworks-logging-CMS-Export

Mobile apps

-moved to HockeyApps

What does it cost?PREV

IEW

How does it work?You install tracking

code or instrumentation

through SDK

Telemetry data is send to Azure when

instrumentation code or tracking code is “hit”

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Assuming Client side code (we all do that, right?)• Insert JavaScript tracking code

into .master page using a custom action

• Insert per page using Embed

How do I monitor in SharePoint?

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..or use instrumentation directy in your code to• Track events• Track metrics• Trace statements for debugging or

event handling• Track exceptions

Source code:http://www.andrewconnell.com/

How do I monitor in SharePoint?

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Don’t affect performance, by monitoring performance!• Tracking is batched and runs in separate

thread• Only trace what is relevant!• If you need specific tracing, add more

instrumentation temporarily• Enable debug or verbose temporarily• Limit number of Ajax calls logged• Include script as Inline JS not script link

Things worth noting!

Installing Application Insights in SharePoint

What is being monitored?

A look at the App Insights Dashboard

Exporting to Power BI

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Overview (VERY well documented!!!)https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-insights-overview Integrationhttp://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/using-azure-application-insights-with-single-page-appsAdd data using PowerShellhttps://vnextengineer.azurewebsites.net/powershell-application-insights/

• Pricinghttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/application-insights/

• SDK for JShttps://github.com/Microsoft/ApplicationInsights-JS/blob/master/API-reference.md

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