Azure Application Insights for WordPress sites
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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