Standard availability tests in Application Insights have limitations like no multi-step authentication, no mTLS support and no access to private networks. This post shows you how to create custom availability tests using .NET and Azure Functions to overcome these restrictions while gaining full control over your monitoring logic.
When connecting to external systems in integration projects, availability tests help you monitor system uptime, verify security measures are up to date and confirm systems can be reached. This post shows you how to create Application Insights standard tests through Bicep to automate your availability monitoring with infrastructure-as-code.
In this post I explain how to deploy an Azure workbook using Bicep and set environment specific variables. I’ll also show how to deploy a shared kusto function in Application Insights with the Azure CLI.
If you use Azure, you most likely use Application Insights for logging. You can use a dashboard to visualize your logging and gain better insights, but dashboards come with some limitations. For more flexibility Azure has worbooks. In this blog post I’ll share some tips & tricks that I’ve gathered over the years. As a sample, we’ll create a workbook that shows information about requests sent to an API Management instance.
