Monitoring Application Insights
Your teams need the telemetry in Azure Application Insights, but giving everyone Azure Portal access and Kusto skills is neither safe nor practical. Monitor your Application Insights instances with Nodinite to detect access problems, automate discovery, and let your team run curated Kusto queries before problems impact your business, all without direct Azure Portal access.
- ✅ Detect and receive alerts on issues in Application Insights instantly
- ✅ Automate discovery and monitoring of all Application Insights instances
- ✅ Empower your team with secure, role-based access
- ✅ Take action with Remote Actions, such as Execute Query, and proactive alerts through Alarm Plugins
Nodinite presents each Application Insights instance as a self-monitored Resource in your Monitor Views.
This page explains how Nodinite monitors Application Insights from one or more role-based Monitor Views. Nodinite tracks the state of Application Insights configurations and lets you manage monitoring thresholds. You can use remote commands as Actions to swiftly resolve issues. The Managing Application Insights page details the Remote Actions. Application Insights also powers Azure Functions monitoring.
Example: Monitored Application Insights instances in a Nodinite Monitor View.
How Monitoring Works
The Azure Agent discovers each Application Insights instance, checks that it can read its data, and reports the state to the Monitoring Service. Users with access to a Monitor View see the state and run the curated Kusto queries as a Remote Action.
Instance"] -->|"Azure REST API"| AG["fa:fa-monitor-waveform Azure Monitoring Agent"] AG --> OK["fa:fa-check OK
Data readable"] AG --> WA["fa:fa-triangle-exclamation Warning
Data.Read permission missing"] AG --> UN["fa:fa-ban Unavailable
No network or access"] WA --> AP["fa:fa-bell Alarm Plugins"] OK --> RA["fa:fa-bolt Execute Query
Remote Action"] style OK fill:#93d16d style WA fill:#FFD525 style UN fill:#c33d34,color:#fff style AG fill:#2678BD,color:#fff
Diagram: The agent evaluates each Application Insights instance into OK (green), Warning (yellow), or Unavailable (red); a Warning raises an alert, and OK instances let users run Kusto queries.
Monitoring Features
- State Evaluation – Assess Application Insights health instantly based on policy.
If Nodinite cannot check your Application Insights state, no one else can use them either.
- Automatic Discovery – The Nodinite Azure Agent uses the Azure Rest API to automatically present Application Insights instances.
- Category-based Monitoring – Group monitored Resources by Nodinite Categories.
- Role-based Access – Share access to individual items using Monitor Views.
State Evaluation for Application Insights
Nodinite presents each Application Insights instance as a Resource. For example, if you have three Application Insights instances, you see three Resources in Nodinite.
- The Nodinite Resources name matches the deployed Application Insights instance name.
- Monitored Application Insights instances belong to the 'Application Insights' Category.
Many other Azure-related Categories exist. Review the Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview.
- The Application name uses the pattern:
Subscription name/Resource Group Name.
Each item (shown as a Resource) receives a state (OK, Warning, Error, Unavailable) based on evaluation.
You can override the evaluation process by configuring the Expected State option for any Nodinite Resource.
Application Insights
For Application Insights Resources, Nodinite evaluates state as follows:
| State | Status | Description | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🚫 Unavailable | Resource not available |
|
Review Prerequisites and the firewall settings |
| ❌ Error | Error threshold breached | N/A | |
| ⚠️ Warning | Warning threshold breached | Azure App Registration delegated permissions (Data.Read) not configured | Review Azure user rights |
| ✅ OK | Within user-defined thresholds | Details Execute Query |
Alert History for Application Insights
Analyze the alert history for your Application Insights with Nodinite. During root cause analysis, you can search for historical state changes for any time span, either for all Application Insights or individually, if your Monitor View allows it. Learn more in the Add or manage Monitor View and Resource State History guides.
| Search | Resource history |
|---|---|
 Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View |
 Alert history for the selected Application Insights item |
Frequently Asked Questions
Use the Troubleshooting guide to find answers to common questions and known issues. When an instance shows Warning, grant the App Registration the Application Insights API - Data.Read delegated permission as described in the Azure user rights section and the Azure Application Access guide.