Can I relate request passing through multiple services in application insights?

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Can I relate request passing through multiple services in application insights?

Roshni Patel 126

Lets consider a situation where I have an external service sending an event, that event goes through event grid and is received by Java Microservices(hosted in azure) and then data is added to database. Is there a way to view this whole trace in application insights. A detailed answer would be appreciated of how it can be done.

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Monalla-MSFT 13,166 Moderator

@Roshni Patel - Thanks for reaching out to us.

Azure Application Insights allows one to monitor Web Applications, regardless of whether they're running on Azure or not. As mentioned in the Official documentation, this happens when one installs an instrumentation package in the application and sets up an Application Insights resource in the Microsoft Azure portal. The instrumentation monitors the app and sends telemetry data to the portal.

Every Application Insights resource has an Instrumentation Key, also known as the ikey, which specifies where the Telemetry is to be displayed. Also, you can instrument not only the web application, but also any background components, and the JavaScript in the web pages.

This document talks in detail about Dependency tracking with Azure Application Insights.

And this document explains how you can leverage Application Map to discover such dependencies.

Hope this helps. and please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.

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Roshni Patel 126 Reputation points

2022-12-15T10:13:36.467+00:00

Hi @Monalla-MSFT , I have read through many documentations and it is a bit confusing for me currently. I wanted to know in simple words whether if my request is going through many layers can I trace it down? Some documentation I have read has a mention of operation_id and parent_operation_id. Can you please help me with the correct approach here. My only question is If there is an event A which I received from some place and it is passing through event grid, microservices and database and if I want to trace the whole path can I search for some id in insights and get it or something else needs to be done?
Monalla-MSFT 13,166 Reputation points Moderator

2022-12-20T18:33:48.607+00:00
Yes you can search in insights using instrumentation key.

The Application Insights SDKs include a dependency module that automatically collects partial dependency information for your Web app. To get the complete data, you might want to install the appropriate agent for the host server as listed here. You can also write your own SDK calls to monitor other custom dependencies, both in the client and server code, using the TrackDependency API.

One Instrumentation key is generated for each Application Insights resource. To separate telemetry for different application components, or for different versions of the same component, you'll have to create a new Application Insights resource. However, if you want to view all of your Telemetry results in the same resource, you can configure the same ikey throughout. This document can help you understand it better.

The Application Map feature in Application Insights generates the topology automatically from the Telemetry received from your app. Please check out the Official documentation on Dependency Tracking for Application Insights to know more.
Monalla-MSFT 13,166 Reputation points Moderator

2023-04-24T19:19:26.66+00:00

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