what is the AI best practice with multiple .net apps

Question

We are going to start adding Application Insights to a bunch of our web apps (20-30 apps). We have already done this on a few but wanted to get some feed back on the best approach.
Should we do 1 application insights and 1 log analytics workspace per app?

Can apps share log analytic workspaces and does this make querying easier?
Is there any documentation on this exact scenario?
thanks in advance. Lance

Answer 1

Hi,

You can have multiple Application Insights instances tied to a single Log Analytics workspace. In general, you should have one Application Insights instance per app. If you have some apps that are tightly coupled together like running on the same instances, communicating between each other (via internal channels and not via public REST APIs for example), etc. in that case might be better to have one Application Insights instance for that set of apps. As Log Analytics and App insights are regional resources you could go with multiple instances of Log Analytics in case you have some regional requirements.

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Answer 2

@Lance Lyons In addition to the information shared by Stanislav above, you could also see the following link -

How many Application Insights resources should I deploy?

It contains information about when to use a single Application Insights resource and other considerations that should help you make this decision.

Hope it helps. Please let us know if you have any questions.