RARomano / ApplicationInsights.NodeJS

Monitoring Node JS applications with Applications Insights

ApplicationInsights.NodeJS

This repository will show how to use Application Insights to monitor Node JS applications.

Creating an Application Insights account

First, create a free Azure account (if you don't have one): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/application-insights/

Then, create an Application Insights instance

Select Node JS application

When the instance is created, grab the Instrumentation Key

Running the application

Modifiy the line 11 of the file index.js https://github.com/RARomano/ApplicationInsights.NodeJS/blob/master/index.js#L11 to add the Instrumentation Key generated on the previous step

Then run:

npm install
node index

Open the browser and make a request to http://localhost:8080/ping and then to http://localhost:8080/error. Wait a few moments and see the data being populated into the Application Insights dashboards.