Configuring Application Insights – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor

Configuring Application Insights

We will now deploy Application Insights. In this exercise, we will create a new web application service that we can associate with the Applications Insights resource and see the incoming data.

Creating your application

We will now deploy an application for monitoring; this application will be built from a GitHub repository and will take several minutes to provision after our code has run:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by clicking on https://portal.azure.com.
2. Click the Azure CLI icon at the top right of the Azure portal to open an Azure CLI instance:

Figure 20.42 – Opening the Azure CLI

3. If you have never used the CLI before, you will be required to set up storage for this. Follow the prompts on screen to configure your container on a storage account.
4. When asked for the environment, you can select PowerShell. If you prefer to use Bash, then enter the following, which will open PowerShell in the Bash terminal, and press Enter:

pwsh

5. Paste in the following and press Enter:

#Parameters

$ResourceGroup = “AZ104-Monitor”

$Location = “WestEurope”

$AppServicePlanName = “mylinuxappserviceplan10101”

$gitrepo=”https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/AdminLTE.git”

$webappname=”mywebapp$(Get-Random)”

#Create an App Service Plan for Linux

New-AzAppServicePlan -Name $AppServicePlanName -Tier Free -Location $Location -Linux -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup

#Create a Web App

New-AzWebApp -Name $WebAppName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -Location $Location -AppServicePlan $AppServicePlanName

#Modify the Web App to Dotnet

Set-AzWebApp -Name $WebAppName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -AppServicePlan $AppServicePlanName -NetFrameworkVersion 6

#Configure GitHub deployment from your GitHub repo and deploy once.

$PropertiesObject = @{ repoUrl = “$gitrepo”; branch = “master”; isManualIntegration = “true”;
}
Set-AzResource -Properties $PropertiesObject

-ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroup -ResourceType Microsoft.Web/sites/sourcecontrols -ResourceName $WebAppName/web -ApiVersion 2015-08-01 -Force

Now that your application is ready, we will set up Application Insights.

Creating your Application Insights resource

You will now create your Application Insights resource using the following steps:

1. Navigate to your AZ104-Monitor resource group.
2. Click + Create.
3. Type application insights into the search bar and click the Application Insights option that appears.
4. Click Create.
5. Enter the following details:

‚ •Subscription: Select your Azure subscription.

‚ •Resource Group: AZ104-Monitor.

‚ •Name: az104monitorappinsights.

‚ •Region: West Europe (or select what you prefer).

‚ •Resource Mode: Workspace-based.

‚ •Subscription: Select the Azure subscription for your Log Analytics workspace.

‚• Log Analytics Workspace: Select the Log Analytics Workspace you created previously.

Figure 20.43 – Application Insights deployment

6. Click Review + create.
7. Click Create.

Now that you have your Application Insights resource ready, we will look at how to associate this with your web app next.