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Appinsights Instrumentation

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Microsoft's official guidance for adding Azure Application Insights telemetry to web applications. Covers SDK setup patterns for ASP.NET Core, Node.js, and Python apps, with specific instructions for auto-instrumentation versus manual setup depending on your hosting environment. Includes Bicep templates for resource creation and concrete code examples for each framework. The skill focuses purely on instrumentation guidance and delegates actual code changes to the azure-prepare skill. Honestly useful if you're working with Azure-hosted apps and need to understand the telemetry patterns before implementing them, though it assumes you're already committed to the Azure ecosystem.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill appinsights-instrumentation --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

AppInsights Instrumentation Guide

This skill provides guidance and reference material for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights.

⛔ ADDING COMPONENTS?

If the user wants to add App Insights to their app, invoke azure-prepare instead. This skill provides reference material—azure-prepare orchestrates the actual changes.

When to Use This Skill

  • User asks how to instrument (guidance, patterns, examples)
  • User needs SDK setup instructions
  • azure-prepare invokes this skill during research phase
  • User wants to understand App Insights concepts

When to Use azure-prepare Instead

  • User says "add telemetry to my app"
  • User says "add App Insights"
  • User wants to modify their project
  • Any request to change/add components

Prerequisites

The app in the workspace must be one of these kinds

  • An ASP.NET Core app hosted in Azure
  • An Azure Container App
  • A Node.js app hosted in Azure
  • A Python app hosted in Azure

Guidelines

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SKILL.md on GitHub

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Repository
github.com/microsoft/azure-skills
Categories
DevOps & CI/CD, Cloud & Infrastructure
First seen
Apr 16, 2026

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