The document discusses the launch event for Visual Studio 2015, emphasizing the importance of application insights for successful app development. It highlights modern lifecycle management, challenges in development and operations, and the role of data-driven decision making in improving application performance and user experience. Key features of Application Insights, including telemetry collection, diagnostics, and real-time usage analytics, are also outlined to support developers in enhancing their applications.

1. Visual Studio 2015 Launch event
Maak uw applicatie een succes
met Application Insights

3. About me
Mark van den Berg

4. Communicate
@markvandenberg
markvdb@delta-n.nl
http://markberg.wordpress.com

5. Agenda
• Modern Lifecycle Management
• What is Application Insights
• Getting Started
• Understanding Your Customers

6. Building successful apps is hard!
• Need for Speed - User retention requires constant improvement in
performance & reliability
• Constant Evolution - Services & mobile apps need to evolve rapidly to survive
& grow
• Continuous Delivery - Most major services push update as often as every day
Success requires data-driven decision making
• Making the right investments requires deep understanding of user behavior
and habits
Modern Lifecycle Management

7. Modern Lifecycle Management
Plan Monitor + Learn
Development
Release
Operations
Develop + Test

8. Challenges and blockers
• Lack of actionable and contextual
information to resolve incidents
• Inability to quickly detect, diagnose
and triage application issues
• Lack of collaboration between
development and operations
• Prioritization and validation of
investments not based on real data
Plan Monitor + Learn
Development
Release
Operations
Develop + Test

9. Am I meeting my service
KPIs?
What is the root
cause?
Is my application loading fast enough?
Is my application UP or
DOWN?
How many people are
impacted?
Is my application crashing?
What features are my customers
using?
How responsive are my dependency
calls?
How good is the end user experience?
Faced these questions?

10. What is Application Insights

11. Application Insights
Telemetry is collected at each
tier: mobile applications, server
applications and browser
Telemetry arrives in the Application
Insights service in the cloud where
it is processed & stored
Get a 360° view of the application
including availability, performance
and usage patterns

12. Key capabilities
360° View Across
Availability, Performance & Usage
• Overall app health via Overview Blade
• Quickly correlate performance & usage
data
• Detailed insights with a click of a button
through intuitive data exploration
Fast & Powerful Diagnostics &
Usage Insights
• Quickly diagnose availability &
performance issues
• Learn & improve continuously with
usage insights
• Extend your telemetry data
• Export your data for further analysis
Built-in Analytics
for any app
• Supports any app type
• Zero-click enablement
• No-touch monitoring

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Sources of Telemetry
Outside-in monitoring
URL pings and web tests from 16
global points of presence
Observed user behavior
How is the application being used?
Developer traces and events
Whatever the developer would like to
send to Application Insights
Observed application behavior
No coding required – service dependencies,
queries, response time, exceptions, logs, etc.
Infrastructure performance
System performance counters
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14. • Provides a summary of the application’s health - availability, performance and
usage
Overview Blade
Out of the box experience

15. • Correlate performance and usage in a
single view
• Pinpoint problems and investigate
questions like “Do I have network
performance issues that hurt user
adoption?”
• Click on specific metric and drill into
detailed information and answer
questions such as “what request is
failing the most?”
Drill down
Detailed insights with the click of a button

16. • Metrics Explorer provides a flexible
multi-dimensional UI over custom and
out-of-the-box telemetry collected
• Diagnostic Search enables
efficient search over large
sets of data using the
query experience
Drill down tools
Powerful insights with Metrics Explorer and Diagnostic Search

17. Identify & triage availability issues
• Monitor your web sites with simple pings to complex
web tests from points around the world
Diagnose & solve performance problems
• Quickly diagnose issues by accessing rich
application performance data from the client
view to dependencies
Fast and powerful insights

18. Mobile crash/sever exception analytics
• Real time view of crashes happening on devices,
allowing you to focus on fixing key issues with
the biggest impact first
Fast and powerful insights

19. Getting Started

20. Easily add analytics across multiple platforms
including: ASP.NET, Java/J2EE, iOS, Android,
Windows, as well as OSS technologies such
as Node.JS, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
Built-in Analytics
Any app support

22. Understanding Your Customers

23. • Understand where your users are
coming from and where they spend
most of their time
• Prioritize future investments and
continuously improve your app
based on user activity and usage
patterns and trends
Fast and powerful insights
Learn & improve with usage insights

24. • Add custom metrics and events to
better track and analyze user activity
• Continuously Export data to Azure Blob
Storage for custom integration with other
data sources and further analysis
Fast and powerful insights
Extend telemetry data

26. Public Preview
Available in 3 tiers
• Free,
• Standard
• Premium
Differentiated mainly on data
volume and retention limits

27. Vragen

28. Visual Studio TFS 2015 Launch Event
Cross Platform Development
3 november 2015
16:00 – 19:30
Den Haag
Toegang gratis
Meer informatie en aanmelden via:
Visual Studio TFS 2015 – Cross Platform Development
Globaal Programma:
- Visual Studio 2015 overview door Microsoft
- Migreren naar Visual Studio Online
- Cross-platform apps bouwen met VSO Build vNext
- Containers en Cross-Platform Development