Designing Automated Application Analytics with Azure Application Insights

Modern software development moves too fast for manual debugging and reactive troubleshooting. To maintain high-performing systems, you need automated, real-time insights into your application's behavior and user experience. This text-based course guides you through the core principles of application performance monitoring and telemetry design. You will learn how to transition from basic logging to automated, proactive observability, ensuring your applications run smoothly without constant manual oversight. What you'll learn: - Understand the fundamentals of application telemetry, metrics, and structured logging. - Configure Azure Application Insights to automatically collect performance and usage data. - Integrate modern OpenTelemetry standards for flexible and vendor-neutral data collection. - Design automated alerting rules and smart detection thresholds to catch anomalies early. - Analyze user behavior patterns and application dependencies using diagnostic search. - Structure telemetry pipelines that align with modern DevOps continuous monitoring practices. The course begins with foundational concepts of system monitoring and telemetry collection. You will then progress through step-by-step written explanations on configuring Azure Application Insights, structuring query-based alerts, and applying modern observability workflows to real-world scenarios. This course is designed for beginner developers, system administrators, and aspiring DevOps engineers who want to build a solid foundation in application monitoring. No prior experience with Azure or telemetry systems is required. Start building smarter, self-monitoring applications today.