Move application insights instance tenant

Question

Move application insights instance tenant

Ketki Naik 20 Microsoft Employee

Hi Team,
I want to move my application insights instance from one tenant to another tenant. I want all the rules and alerts to remain the same even after moving it to new tenant. How can I do that?

Naveena Patlolla 3,850 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-03-12T06:06:05.42+00:00
Hi Ketki Naik

Moving an Azure Application Insights instance from one tenant to another isn't directly supported as a built-in feature in Azure. However, you can achieve this migration by recreating the Application Insights instance in the new tenant and transferring configurations like rules and alerts manually or through automation.

Steps to Move Application Insights to Another Tenant

Export and Recreate Application Insights Instance

Step 1: In the source tenant, note down the Instrumentation Key and Connection String of the Application Insights instance.

Step 2: In the destination tenant, create a new Application Insights instance with the same type (e.g., Log Analytics-based or Classic).

Step 3: Update your application code or configuration with the new Instrumentation Key and Connection String to start sending telemetry to the new instance.

Transfer Rules and Alerts

You need to move the Alert Rules, Action Groups, and Workbooks manually or via automation.

Export and Import Alerts Manually

Navigate to Azure Monitor > Alerts > Manage alert rules in the source tenant.

Export each alert rule in JSON format.

In the destination tenant, go to Azure Monitor > Alerts > Manage alert rules and create new rules using the same configurations.

Please "upvote" if the comment is helpful
Ketki Naik 20 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2025-03-12T17:48:16.06+00:00

Hi Naveena,

Thank you for your response. If we create new instance in another tenant then what will happen to historic data from the app isight instance in old tenant?

Accepted answer

0 additional answers

Your answer

Naveena Patlolla 3,850 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-03-12T06:06:05.42+00:00

Hi Ketki Naik

Moving an Azure Application Insights instance from one tenant to another isn't directly supported as a built-in feature in Azure. However, you can achieve this migration by recreating the Application Insights instance in the new tenant and transferring configurations like rules and alerts manually or through automation.

Steps to Move Application Insights to Another Tenant

Export and Recreate Application Insights Instance

Step 1: In the source tenant, note down the Instrumentation Key and Connection String of the Application Insights instance.

Step 2: In the destination tenant, create a new Application Insights instance with the same type (e.g., Log Analytics-based or Classic).

Step 3: Update your application code or configuration with the new Instrumentation Key and Connection String to start sending telemetry to the new instance.

Transfer Rules and Alerts

You need to move the Alert Rules, Action Groups, and Workbooks manually or via automation.

Export and Import Alerts Manually

Navigate to Azure Monitor > Alerts > Manage alert rules in the source tenant.

Export each alert rule in JSON format.

In the destination tenant, go to Azure Monitor > Alerts > Manage alert rules and create new rules using the same configurations.

Please "upvote" if the comment is helpful
Ketki Naik 20 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2025-03-12T17:48:16.06+00:00

Hi Naveena,

Thank you for your response. If we create new instance in another tenant then what will happen to historic data from the app isight instance in old tenant?

Answer 1

Hi Ketki Naik

Sorry for the delayed response.

The historic data from the old tenant will remain in the old tenant and will not automatically migrate.

Moving or renaming any Azure Application Insights resource changes the resource ID. When the ID changes for a workspace-based resource, the data sent for the prior ID is accessible only when you query the underlying Log Analytics workspace. The data won't be accessible from within the renamed or moved Application Insights resource. Please refer the below document

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/move-support-resources#microsoftinsights

In order to Move Application Insights, you need to move Log analytics workspace, which is associated with App Insights, because data will be stored in Log Analytics workspace.

Tenant to Tenant Migration is not possible, but if you want to Move Within the Tenant, please follow the below Article.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/move-workspace?tabs=azure-portal#considerations

Please do not forget to "Accept the answer” and “upvote it” wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members.it would be greatly appreciated and helpful to others.

Share via

Move application insights instance tenant

0 additional answers

Your answer