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'Hello World' Spring Boot MVC + Azure WebApps + Linux App Service plan

Prerequisites

• Azure subscription
• Basic knowledge of Azure cloud shell
• Deployed Azure webapp hosted on a linux app service plan
• Application insight instance linked to the web app
• A spring mvc app

Dependancies

Reuse the POM.xml file as is for all dependecies. Make sure to change the resource names mentioned under the "azure-webapp-maven-plugin"

Logging DEBUG, INFO and ERROR events for a Linux based Java Azure WebApp/API using application insights

Navigate to controller class

Install the application insights agent to you azure java app.

Download the latest version of the applicationinsights-agent-X.X.X.jar and publish the jar inside the wwwroot folder of your Azure WebApp

Inside java solution, resources folder

• Add AI-Agent.xml. More info here
• Add application.properties. More info here
• Add log4j2.xml. This appends log4j events to ApplicationInsights 'traces' table.

App Configuration settings

• Open the Azure cloud shell and use the below cli command

az webapp config appsettings set -g resroucegroupname -n uniqueappname --settings 'JAVA_OPTS=-javaagent:/home/site/wwwroot/applicationinsights-agent-X.X.X.jar'

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