Don't Fly Blind - Implementing Effective Application Instrumentation

Explore the implementation of effective application instrumentation in this one-hour conference talk from NDC Conferences. Dive into the importance of monitoring applications to gain critical insights for informed decision-making in a devops culture. Learn about Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, focusing on Azure Application Insights. Discover how to integrate and collect various types of data from application components, and gain practical hints and best practices based on real-world experience. Examine tools for troubleshooting and gaining deep insights into application behavior. Explore methods for surfacing telemetry data through early warnings, alerts, dashboards, and data integration. Investigate the rich extensibility and customization options offered by Azure Application Insights to tailor the tool to specific application telemetry needs. Cover topics such as continuous delivery cycle, monitoring in Azure, runtime monitoring, code-based integration, SQL command instrumentation, JavaScript page instrumentation, snapshot connector, telemetry logger, application map, failures panel, debug snapshot, availability testing, alerting, troubleshooting, performance analytics, user flow, synthetic operations, and pricing guidance.