If you’re still using the older version of Application Insights in the Visual Studio Online portal, you’ll have to update your application to use the new version hosted in the Azure Preview portal by October 15.
We announced in an August blog post on Azure Blogs that Application Insights has transitioned from the Visual Studio Online portal to being one of the services offered in the new Azure Preview portal. You can read more details there on our transition schedule and check out our series of short videos describing the new experience. We continue to invest in Application Insights features and functionality in our Azure portal experience, and hit a milestone in April when we announced our Public Preview and furthermore in June when we launched our Pricing Tiers.
Retiring Application Insights in VSO Portal
On October 15, 2015 Application Insights in the VSO portal will move to a read-only mode. It will not accept new data from the MMA agent or our telemetry SDKs and no longer execute web tests configured in the VSO portal. You will still be able to use Application Insights in the VSO portal to view data collected prior to October 15.
Application Insights in the VSO portal will be retired on November 30, 2015.
New Home for Application Insights Blogs
All Application Insights blog posts are now being published on the Azure blogs. You can bookmark this tag URL to monitor our posts. If you haven’t checked out recently, we have had some really good articles posted there talking about interesting scenarios & capabilities:
- Service Monitoring & Diagnostics
- Natural Evolution of Application Performance Management
- Application Insights Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM
- Dependency call stack and Application Insights SDK labs
- Performance Buckets in Application Insights
Documentation for the Azure-hosted version
Learn how to:
- Set up Application Insights
- Analyze metrics
- Search telemetry to diagnose issues
- Get alerts on poor performance or availability
- Use the API to send your own telemetry
- Export telemetry to SQL, Power BI, or your own applications
Summary
If you haven’t already transitioned your applications to using Application Insights in the Azure Preview portal, do it now! With improvements across the board in built-in analytics & deep diagnostics, you can now get much more powerful insights and detect, diagnose & prioritize issues based on user impact, in almost real time.
Please share your ideas for new or improved features at the Application Insights User Voice page and for any questions visit the Application Insights Forum.
