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Azure Application Insights for WordPress sites

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Introduction

Azure Application Insights is a web app monitor service that allows us to analyze the performance and exceptions of our website. In this post we will see how to add it as a plugin to a WordPress website.

Prerequisites

  • An active Azure subscription
  • An active Azure Application Insights service
  • An active WordPress blog

  Plugin Installation

Add Application Insights plugin to WP site.

Add the Application Insights plugin to the WordPress site through the wp-admin page.
From the left-hand side menu, select Plugins - Add New

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Search with the Keywords "Application Insights",

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and Install as the image below shows

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Plugin Configuration

Configure Application Insights through the wp-admin page.
The configuration is quite simple.
We just have to copy the Instrumentation Key from the Azure Application Insights resource Overview blade and,
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from the left side main menu, select Settings - Application Insights,

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paste the key into the Instrumentation Key textbox and click Save Changes.  

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View Data for your WordPress site

 After a few hours, we can check for website insights data from the Azure Application Insights Overview dashboard.
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Diagnose and Investigate exceptions in the WordPress site

 Azure Application Insights give several tools to diagnose and investigate failed request exceptions on the server and client sides.

**Server side

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