talk_flow.md

Instroduction of who I am

• Dakota Clark
• Work for PDQ.com
• On the QA team

What is application (code) monitoring?

• Monitor from inside your modules
• Errors
• Measure execution time of specific code blocks

What is application insights?

• Is now included as part of Azure Monitor (done after talk accepted! 😒)
• Application Performance Management (APM), think code level monitoring
• Can Run anywhere, no requirement for it to be hosted in Azure

How to use effectivly in PowerShell

• How to download and use
• When to use framework / core / standard dll
• Why having the Instrumentation Key unencrypted is okay and you can't do much about it
  • https://neilpatel.com/blog/protect-analytics-from-hacking/
  • https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/premier_developer/2017/12/14/alternative-way-to-protect-your-application-insights-instrumentation-key-in-javascript/
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27816528/application-insights-security-and-spoofing
  • microsoft/ApplicationInsights-JS#281

Code Examples

• Upload whole exceptions
• Measure code execution time
• Flush on function / cmdlet completion
• Flush on module unload
• How to allow users to control telemetry collection

Limits of different types of methods

• FIND LIMITS