New agent for Application Insights available

This post announces an updated version of the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) for Application Insights, improving performance counter collection frequency, log collection, and agent stability. It standardizes configuration through Visual Studio Application Insights Tools, allowing the configuration file to be part of the application deployment. Detailed steps are provided for updating the agent in various scenarios: applications on VMs/physical servers with project file updates, applications on VMs/physical servers without project file updates, and applications in Azure Cloud Services. The post also highlights the new agent version (7.1.11115.0) and provides troubleshooting steps.