Announcing Application Insights Preview

This post announces the preview of Application Insights, detailing its three core services: availability monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), and customer usage analytics. It highlights the integration of deployment markers within availability reports, allowing users to directly link availability issues to specific code deployments. The post also describes the types of data collected by APM (exceptions, memory usage, CPU, request rate, etc.) and customer usage analytics (OS, referral sources, pages usage, etc.), and how this data is made actionable through dynamic reports, email alerts, and customizable dashboards.