Application Insights not working in Azure App Service Plan

  • First, you need to make sure that you have enable App Insights in your App Service
  • Check the application insights log:
  • Login to Azure, got to your App Service
  • Click on SSH on the left,
  • Check the application insights start up log in this folder: /var/log/applicationinsights
  • View 2 logs file there, it will give you some hint what could be wrong.

There are some common issue:

  • Wrong instrumentation key
  • Application has already instrumented application insights in their code, that means it will not use the App Insights agent by the server. In this case you need to have a way to make sure that your Application Insights code pickup the right instrumentation key.

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