Azure/Application Insight datasource, cant find good metrics

Grafana Azure Monitor
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Hi,

I’ve hooked a app center app with metrics into an azure application insight. The application insight resource is great and shows sessions/mobile model/mobile os and some other stats.

I’ve now installed the Azure datasource plugin to my grafana server and added the application insight as a datasource. But when im opening the metrics dropdown all the metrics are garbage, none seems to be relevant. What seems to be important are left though as group by. Is there a way to change the metrics of the application insight datasource?

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Not sure what you mean exactly. Did you miss this dropdown:

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The plugin combines Azure Monitor and Application Insights together in one data source. The reason being that in the near future, Microsoft will be moving Application Insights into Azure Monitor.

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I don’t know about Azure Monitor, but I’ve added a application insight for this datasource only.

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And in metrics I can’t find any metric for phone- model/os for example. One stat I can find is the users/count. But it only shows 1 or 2. As in 1 or 2 logged into the application insight on the azure portal? Because the application insight in the portal are displaying far more than that.

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Looks like you have totally different time aggregations (group by time) and different time intervals.

  1. In Grafana, the stats are aggregated/grouped by 1 minute. In The Azure portal, it looks like they are aggregated by 1 hour.

  2. In Grafana, the time interval is the last 15 hours. In Azure Portal, the time interval is the last 24 hours.

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After configuring the time grain I got the same results as the azure graph.

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But I still have problem finding a good group by to count the graph above. (Total users last 24 hours).

Also I still can’t find the metric phone model/ os.

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Is there a way to create metrics in application insight that grafana can read from? Or are the metrics always the same from application insight?

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They are group by conditions. Choose them from the Group By menu:

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Grafana should expose the exact same metrics and group by conditions that App Insights does.

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You’re correct using this method helps me find alot of useful data. Thanks!

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It seems like this interface was hard to use/discover. What was it you found difficult? Anything we could change?

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It wasn’t straight forward understanding the metrics and how to group them. But it took me less than 1-2 hours for me to understand it which I think is good.

But there are of course ways to improve it, but I don’t really have any good feedback for it. I wouldn’t say im an expert in application insight either. So its hard to give any feedback that you can implement.

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Ok - thanks! There are some improvements planned for App Insights in the near future so I’ll take a look at the UX and see if we can improve it a bit.