SharePoint Monitoring Using Azure Application Insights

Application Insights is the great way to dig down/ troubleshooting issues with any application hosted local or on the cloud. It's quite easy to configure. There are 3 ways to configure 

• Build Time
• Run Time
• Both of above

Following type of reports diagnostics, we can collect using Application Insights

• Diagnostic trace logs 
• Dependency rates
• Response times
• Failure rates
• AJAX Calls, Exceptions
• Host diagnostics 
• Page views and load performance
• User and session counts
• Performance counters
• Custom events and metrics

Let me show you step by step example how to configure Azure Application Insights to monitor Sharepoint Site

1. In PowerShell use below command in order to connect with Azure

Login-AzureRmAccoun


2. Click + button and search for "Application Insights"

3. Click "Create" button

4. Provide credentials, i gave name "Test_ApplicationInsights"

5. Service only available in following regions until now may be later Microsoft will offer in other regions

6. Here you can see the properties of "Application Insights"

7. Click "Getting Started" in order to pull script (This is the script you will insert in your SharePoint site pages)

8. After copying script past in SharePoint Site using SharePoint ribbon to insert script as shown below

9. After inserting users, session and page views will be visible in Azure Portal (Application Insights)

10. There you go, you can see the graphs/stats from different angles