appinsights

Application Insights REST API datasource

Use the Application Insights REST API datasource to retrieve real time data from App Insights.

Config

Set source to app-insights. Add the following proporties:

Config property	Description
appid	Your App ID
apikey	Your API key
method	UsuallyGET
endpoint	The endpoint property must be one of the supported endpoints specified by the Application Insights REST API
parameters	Object of url parameters, as supported by endpoint

Endpoint

The endpoint property must be one of the supported endpoints specified by the Application Insights REST API:

• /metrics
• /metrics/metadata
• /events
• /events/$metadata
• /query
• /query/schema

See the Application Insights REST API documentation for details.

Example

{
  id: 'MyAppInsightsSource',
  plugin: 'generic',
  updateInterval: 10000,
  timeout: 10000,
  source: 'app-insights',
  config: {
    appid: 'appid',
    apikey: 'apikey',
    endpoint: '/query',
    method: 'GET',
    parameters: {
      'timespan': 'PT3H',
      'query': 'query'
    }
  }
}

The data source produces a JSON object similar to this:

{
  values: [
    { 
      col0: val00,
      col1: val01
    },
    { 
      col0: val10,
      col1: val11
    }
  ]
}

See also data sources.