Azure Application Insights

Azure Application Insights is a service that can help your team gain insights into the usage, reliability and performance of your live Node.js Express applications.

Learn about Azure Application Insights

The Application Insights extension for Visual Studio Code brings information from your production services right into your code editor to help you find and fix issues faster.

Features

Request data in CodeLens

Three request metrics are available in CodeLens in Visual Studio Code. Each shows data from the last 24 hours as measured by the Application Insights resource you set up with Visual Studio Code:

• Total Requests - Number of requests made to this route
• Failed Request - Number of failed requests to this route
• Average Response Times - Average response time for requests made to this route.

Easy Onboarding

Enable Application Insights telemetry collection in your Express app with a simple command in Visual Studio Code.

Getting started with Express and Application Insights

Create an Express app

Get started by installing the Express generator, creating a new app, and opening it in Visual Studio Code:

$ npm install express-generator -g
$ express mywebapp
$ cd mywebbapp && npm install
$ code .

Learn about using the Express generator.

Onboard with Application Insights

Run the 'Add to Project' command to register your app with Application Insights.

Ctrl/Command + Shift + P -> "Application Insights: Add to Project"

This command guides you through creating (or selecting) an Azure resource for your telemetry. It also adds the required packages/code to start collecting telemetry data and showing it in CodeLens. Run your app or deploy it to start seeing telemetry in Visual Studio Code and the Azure Portal.

Application Insights resources are free for the first gigabyte of data per month. See Application Insights Pricing for more details.

See CodeLens on request definitions

Click on the CodeLens indicator to see more details.

See CodeLens data from a different Application Insights Resource

If you want CodeLens to show data from a different resource than the one you onboarded from, then run the 'Choose CodeLens resource' command. This is a common scenario when you have different resources for your development and production environment.

Ctrl/Command + Shift + P -> "Application Insights: Choose CodeLens resource"

Release Notes

Version 0.4.1

• Bug fixes.

Version 0.4.0

• Added option to onboard with just the SDK without the need to sign in.
• Onboarding CodeLens for express apps.
• Added average response time information to request CodeLens details view.
• Telemetry improvements.
• Bug fixes.

Version 0.3.1

• Switched to using esprima-fb in order to support es7 syntax.
• Telemetry improvements.

Version 0.3.0

• Added commnad to open azure portal.
• Informational prompt to add Application Insights to a new project.

Version 0.2.0

• Application Insights onboarding for Node.js Express apps.
• Disable telemetry auto-collection.
• Update third party notices file.
• Add functionality to opt out of usage telemetry reporting.

Version 0.1.1

• Bug fix to enable usage telemetry.

Version 0.1.0

• Support CodeLens with request statistics for Node.js Express applications.

Feedback

• In order to report bugs or provide general feedback please visit our repository's Issues page.

Privacy Statement

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If you don’t wish to send usage data to Microsoft, add the environment variable AITOOLSVSCODE_DISABLETELEMETRY.

License

The extension is made available under the Microsoft Software License Terms. Please see the third-party notices file for additional copyright notices and license terms applicable to portions of the software.