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Appinsights Instrumentation

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The appinsights-instrumentation skill provides developers with guidance, reference materials, and best practices for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights, including SDK setup instructions, telemetry patterns, and configuration examples for ASP.NET Core and Node.js applications. It helps developers understand Application Insights concepts and implement proper application performance monitoring, while directing users who need to actively modify their projects to the azure-prepare skill instead. The skill serves as a reference resource during the research and planning phase of adding telemetry to Azure-hosted applications.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure --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/github-copilot-for-azure
Categories
DevOps & CI/CD, Git & Pull Requests, AI & Agent Building, Cloud & Infrastructure

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