#2 Application Insights: The Tool You Never Knew You Needed

Observability is all the rage in the tech landscape. More and more it is becoming essential to have a solid framework that provides context of what your applications are doing at particular times. Applications Insights is the application observability tool built into Azure Monitor, bringing quick instrumentation, ML capabilities raising awareness to certain events, and a seamless experience for getting to the answer faster when things start to go sideways. In this session, we will demonstrate the following things: - An introduction to App Insights, including how to instrument your application (with or without code), what to do with the data, and how to get to answers quicker. - Delve deeper into some more advanced use cases, such as reporting, real-time monitoring, and profiling - See how Application Insights can be the "there is an error in production" copilot and help support the triage of production issues. - Look to the future of Observability in Azure with App Insights integration with Open Telemetry By the end of this session, attendees will have a better understanding on how to best get the most out of Application Insights, which will be a valuable tool in their developer toolbelt.