URL referrer in App Insights

Question

We are monitoring our website metrics using App Insights. Is there any way to track URL referrers to this tool? Or plans to add that capability?

Answer 1

@Zarqa Javed (eXcell) Welcome to Microsoft Q & A Community Forum. In order to log the URL referrers, you can create Telemetry Initializer to add URL referrer to the request. Sample code for your reference.

public void Initialize(ITelemetry telemetry)  
{  
	var requestTelemetry = telemetry as RequestTelemetry;  
	  
	if (requestTelemetry != null)  
	{  
		string referrer = HttpContext.Current.Request.UrlReferrer.ToString();  
		telemetry.Context.Properties.Add("Referrer", referrer);  
	}  
}  

Here are few reference articles that might help you.

• Add or Remove properties using ITelemetryInitializer
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29221631/does-application-insights-track-referrer-url
• https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet/issues/1623