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How to create App Insights Availability Tests with bicep
This article provides bicep-lang templates for Application Insight WebTest resources. More specifically for URL Ping Tests and the new standard Tests
Application Insights, a feature of Azure Monitor, is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers and DevOps professionals. It monitors: * Request rates, response times, and failure rates * Dependency rates, response times, and failure rates * Exceptions * Page views and load performance * AJAX calls * User and session counts * Performance counters * Host diagnostics * Diagnostic trace logs * Custom events and metrics
This article provides bicep-lang templates for Application Insight WebTest resources. More specifically for URL Ping Tests and the new standard Tests
Application Insights does not provide a turn-key ready solution that logs request and response bodies. This article shows how to leverage a custom ASP.NET Core middleware to get that data into Azure Monitor.