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How to remove Application Insights in Visual Studio

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This article shows you how to remove the ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core Application Insights SDK in Visual Studio.

To remove Application Insights, you need to remove the NuGet packages and references from the API in your application. You can uninstall NuGet packages by using the Package Management Console or Manage NuGet Solution in Visual Studio. The following sections show two ways to remove NuGet Packages and what was automatically added in your project. Be sure to confirm the files added and areas with in your own code in which you made calls to the API are removed.

Uninstall using the Package Management Console

  1. To open the Package Management Console, in the top menu select Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Package Manager Console.

    In the top menu click Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Package Manager Console

    Note

    If trace collection is enabled you need to first uninstall Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.TraceListener. Enter Uninstall-package Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.TraceListener then follow the step below to remove Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.

  2. Enter the following command: Uninstall-Package Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web -RemoveDependencies

    After entering the command, the Application Insights package and all of its dependencies will be uninstalled from the project.

    Enter command in console

Uninstall using the Visual Studio NuGet UI

  1. In the Solution Explorer on the right, right click on Solution and select Manage NuGet Packages for Solution.

    You'll then see a screen that allows you to edit all the NuGet packages that are part of the project.

    Right click Solution, in the Solution Explorer, then select Manage NuGet Packages for Solution

    Note

    If trace collection is enabled you need to first uninstall Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.TraceListener without remove dependencies selected and then follow the steps below to uninstall Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web with remove dependencies selected.

  2. Click on the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web package. On the right, check the checkbox next to Project to select all projects.

  3. To remove all dependencies when uninstalling, select the Options dropdown button below the section where you selected project.

    Under Uninstall Options, select the checkbox next to Remove dependencies.

  4. Select Uninstall.

    Screenshot shows the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web window with Remove dependencies checked and uninstall highlighted.

    A dialog box displays that shows all of the dependencies to be removed from the application. Select ok to uninstall.

    Screenshot shows a dialog box with the dependencies to be removed.

  5. After everything is uninstalled, you may still see "ApplicationInsights.config" and "AiHandleErrorAttribute.cs" in the Solution Explorer. You can delete the two files manually.

What is created when you add Application Insights

When you add Application Insights to your project, it creates files and adds code to some of your files. Solely uninstalling the NuGet Packages won't always discard the files and code. To fully remove Application Insights, you should check and manually delete the added code or files along with any API calls you added in your project.

When you add Application Insights Telemetry to a Visual Studio ASP.NET project, it adds the following files:

  • ApplicationInsights.config
  • AiHandleErrorAttribute.cs

The following pieces of code are added:

  • [Your project's name].csproj

     <ApplicationInsightsResourceId>/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourcegroups/Default-ApplicationInsights-EastUS/providers/microsoft.insights/components/WebApplication4</ApplicationInsightsResourceId>

  • Packages.config

    <packages>
...

  <package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" version="2.12.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Agent.Intercept" version="2.4.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.DependencyCollector" version="2.12.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.PerfCounterCollector" version="2.12.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" version="2.12.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer" version="2.12.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.TelemetryChannel" version="2.12.0" targetFramework="net472" />

  <package id="Microsoft.AspNet.TelemetryCorrelation" version="1.0.7" targetFramework="net472" />

  <package id="System.Buffers" version="4.4.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource" version="4.6.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="System.Memory" version="4.5.3" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="System.Numerics.Vectors" version="4.4.0" targetFramework="net472" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe" version="4.5.2" targetFramework="net472" />
...
</packages>

  • Layout.cshtml

    If your project has a Layout.cshtml file the code below is added.

    <head>
...
    <script type = 'text/javascript' >
        var appInsights=window.appInsights||function(config)
        {
            function r(config){ t[config] = function(){ var i = arguments; t.queue.push(function(){ t[config].apply(t, i)})} }
            var t = { config:config},u=document,e=window,o='script',s=u.createElement(o),i,f;for(s.src=config.url||'//az416426.vo.msecnd.net/scripts/a/ai.0.js',u.getElementsByTagName(o)[0].parentNode.appendChild(s),t.cookie=u.cookie,t.queue=[],i=['Event','Exception','Metric','PageView','Trace','Ajax'];i.length;)r('track'+i.pop());return r('setAuthenticatedUserContext'),r('clearAuthenticatedUserContext'),config.disableExceptionTracking||(i='onerror',r('_'+i),f=e[i],e[i]=function(config, r, u, e, o) { var s = f && f(config, r, u, e, o); return s !== !0 && t['_' + i](config, r, u, e, o),s}),t
        }({
            instrumentationKey:'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
        });

        window.appInsights=appInsights;
        appInsights.trackPageView();
    </script>
...
</head>

  • ConnectedService.json

    {
  "ProviderId": "Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.ConnectedService.ConnectedServiceProvider",
  "Version": "16.0.0.0",
  "GettingStartedDocument": {
    "Uri": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613413"
  }
}

  • FilterConfig.cs

            public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
        {
            filters.Add(new ErrorHandler.AiHandleErrorAttribute());// This line was added
        }

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