Monitoring Custom Performance Counters in Application Insights
Apr 21, 2014Charles Sterling
Summary
This post details how to configure Application Insights to monitor custom performance counters. It outlines the steps to create a performance counter in Visual Studio Server Explorer, increment it from an application (demonstrated with VB.NET code), and then add the counter to the Application Insights configuration file using the format 'categorynamecountername'. It references MSDN documentation for further details.
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