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Application Insights

Cloud & DevOps

Azure-native APM for .NET services and SLO tracking

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Overview

Application Insights is the default Azure-native observability sink for ConnectSoft ASP.NET Core services, Azure Functions, and background workers. Factory templates enable telemetry at startup—request tracking, dependency calls, exceptions, and custom events—without each team reinventing instrumentation.

We correlate logs from Serilog with traces and metrics so incidents triage quickly: from UI latency through SQL dependencies to Service Bus handlers. Smart detection and alert rules integrate with on-call workflows and Azure DevOps deployment gates where programs require them.

For clients standardized on third-party APM, OpenTelemetry export remains available—but Application Insights keeps Azure-first programs simple, cost-transparent, and aligned with Microsoft support boundaries.

Operating .NET microservices on Azure without guessing what failed in production? Application Insights in our templates gives you golden signals on day one—extend dashboards per service as you scale.

Why we use it:

  • Auto-instrumentation for ASP.NET Core and Azure Functions on .NET 10
  • Distributed tracing linked to Serilog correlation IDs
  • Dependency tracking for SQL, HTTP, and Azure Service Bus
  • Alert rules and workbooks for SLO and error-budget monitoring
  • Integration with Azure DevOps deployment and release annotations
  • OpenTelemetry export when multi-vendor observability is required

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