Create Customized Dashboards in Application Insights

Application Insights is a treasure box of marvelous things. You can practically do everything you can possible think of, to get insights about how your application, web app or Azure function is behaving. It integrates seamlessly with almost any Azure resource. And to add to its already rich set of functionalities, it is smart and can detect how your Azure resources are connected to each other and create a graphical map of the dependencies.

Today, I will delve into creating standard dashboards for users, giving access to a user or group of users and customizing the dashboard so that it does not show too much information (or may be too little) 😜

Because Azure function are orgasmic and I love it :), I would show how Application insights is connected to Azure functions. You obviously can use any other Azure resource you would like to.

1. ) I have an Azure function mytestfunc345 connected to Application insights mytestfunc345 as below.

Function configured to send logs to App insights.

2.) As I want to show how to give access to our Application insight dashboards to different users, I have created a Guest User in Azure AD, with a different email account.