What is auto-instrumentation for Azure Monitor Application Insights?

Auto-instrumentation quickly and easily enables Application Insights to make telemetry like metrics, requests, and dependencies available in your Application Insights resource.

Supported environments, languages, and resource providers

The following table shows the current state of auto-instrumentation availability.

Links are provided to more information for each supported scenario.

Environment/Resource provider	.NET Framework	.NET Core / .NET	Java	Node.js	Python
Azure App Service on Windows - Publish as Code	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗 ¹	❌
Azure App Service on Windows - Publish as Docker	✅ ²	✅ ²	✅ ²	❌	❌
Azure App Service on Linux - Publish as Code	❌	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗	❌
Azure App Service on Linux - Publish as Docker	❌	❌	✅ 🔗	✅ 🔗	❌
Azure Functions - basic	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗 ¹	✅ 🔗 ¹
Azure Functions - dependencies	❌	❌	✅ 🔗 ²	❌	✅ 🔗
Azure Spring Cloud	❌	❌	✅ 🔗	❌	❌
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	❌	❌	✅ 🔗	❌	❌
Azure VMs Windows	✅ 🔗 ² ³	✅ 🔗 ² ³	✅ 🔗	❌	❌
On-premises VMs Windows	✅ 🔗 ³	✅ 🔗 ² ³	✅ 🔗	❌	❌
Standalone agent - any environment	❌	❌	✅ 🔗	❌	❌

Footnotes

1: Application Insights is on by default and enabled automatically.
2: This feature is in public preview. See Supplemental Terms of Use for Microsoft Azure Previews.
3: An agent must be deployed and configured.

Note

Auto-instrumentation was known as "codeless attach" before October 2021.