Application Insights REST API POST Metric

Question

I would like to use Application Rest API to POST custom metrics. According to the API Explorer (https://dev.applicationinsights.io/apiexplorer/postMetrics?appId=DEMO_APP&apiKey=DEMO_KEY) it should be possible. However I have not found any documentation on how a body of such a request should look like. Can you point me to the documentation that might explain it? Use case is to track metric from c++ which is not supported by any of existing SDKs.

Answer 1

Hi @Grzegorz Siekaniec ,

This is the API reference for the API you are referring to which explains request body schema with two examples.

Also, as per this reference, the content-type header field is “application/json” so formatted body would accept JSON content as body. For reference, please check below screenshot.

As per this and this document references, JSON content under request body is valid. For reference, please check below screenshots.

For illustration, please check below screenshots.