Application Insights is now in Public Preview, and what a journey it has been getting here. Public Preview was announced at //Build/, along with our Pricing Plans. For more on the Public Preview Announcement: Announcing Application Insights Public Preview, and for our Pricing Plans: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/application-insights/.
During the last sprint we also wrapped up some features, while preparing for conference season and the announcement of Public Preview. In addition to the service updates and SDK updates described below, the release of Visual Studio 2015 RC has some improvements in how we integrate with the NuGet package manager, and in support for additional project types, including Windows 10.
iOS and Android support
Our iOS and Android SDKs are now released. Along with the supporting overview pages, this provides support for usage insights and crash diagnostics, thanks to the powerful capabilities we are integrating from HockeyApp.
Performance counters for Java applications
With the latest release of the Java SDK (version 0.9.3), performance counters and unhandled exceptions information are now automatically collected for your Java application.
From the Overview blade, click Servers to see performance counters.
If you want to see other performance counters, you can edit the Application Insights configuration file and choose from any counters exposed by the JMV or Windows. The information about these performance counters will be visible as custom metrics in Metric Explorer.
Unhandled exceptions in Java apps
To view information about unhandled exceptions, from the Overview blade, click Failures. Unhandled exceptions are displayed in the same way as custom exceptions are displayed.
Fine time selection
We’ve added the ability to drag to select a specific time range within a chart on the ASP.NET overview blade. To select a time range, you can grab the small triangles near the x-axis and drag these to select a time range:
A zoomed-in view of this region will be presented in a child Metrics Explorer blade. This will greatly simplify drilling in to regions of interest (e.g. unusually high latency as depicted here) at the start of a journey to investigate the underlying causes.
Wrapping up Sprint 82 was exciting as it aligned with some major announcements, and our continued integration with Visual Studio 2015 RC, which released during the same week.
We are very interested in hearing about how we are doing, so please submit questions and issues to Forums, bugs to Connect (select Application Insights), and suggestions to User Voice.
Thanks,
David Lubash