Creating an Application Insights repository
A new Application Insights repository can easily be created in Azure using the following steps :
- Connect to the Azure Portal.
- Enter
Application insights
in the search bar and selectApplication Insights
inServices
.
- Click on
Create
. - Select the subscription. If you have a Visual Studio subscription linked to you account, you can choose it to create a personal repository.
- Select or create the resource group the Application Insights repository will belong to.
- Enter the repository name.
- Choose the region where you want it to be hosted.
- Click on
Review + create
.
Azure checks that the repository can be created and displays a validation screen.
- Click on
Create
.
A deployment screen of your repository appears.
- When the repository is deployed, click on
Go to resource
Now you see your Application Insights repository.
Note its name, Resource group
and Instrumentation key
, they are used to connect Neos to the repository.
Personal repository
It can be useful for developers to create their own Application Insights repository. For example, when working on a local cluster, it is possible to configure it to send its logs to this personal repository to help debugging.
Activating Azure services on a Visual Studio account
To access Azure services, it is necessary to create an account.
Visual Studio subscriptions provided by Isagri come with a monthly credit of $50 (~ €45) that allows the usage of Azure services.
Application Insights is free up to a limit of 5GB of logs, but it is still necessary to activate this credit in order to access it.
- Find the email confirming your Visual Studio subscription (Subject:
Your newly assigned Visual Studio subscription is here
, From:Visual Studio Subscriptions visualstudio-noreply@microsoft.com
). - Click on
Access my subscription.
The Visual Studio subscription page opens. A box offers the monthly $50 credit.
- Click on
Activate.
An Azure subscription page opens.
- Check the box
I agree ...
. - Click on "Sign up."
If everything goes well, a page from the Azure portal opens, and a confirmation email regarding the activation of the monthly Azure credit is received.
Using the Visual Studio subscription to create your own Application Insights repository
The process of creating a personal Application Insights repository is identical to the one described earlier.
The only difference lies in choosing the Visual Studio Professional Subscription when creating it.