Add .NET Counter publication to App Insights on Startup
There are a whole suite of .NET counters available to use to publish to App Insights. This is a low-lift modification that enables us to gain many insights, directly inside of App Insights Metrics, we can utilize to diagnose issues on customers.
This enables us to do performance investigations that otherwise require manual intervention (such as downloading .ETL files and opening them in PerfView or capturing dump files and analyzing them).
We can skip these manual steps and jump write to "close to root causes" by publishing this information. There is little cost and no significant performance degradation associated with publishing this information because Microsoft has designed these metrics to be high performance to collect.
Having this information available to us enables us to build further features such as success metrics into dashboards for partners to gauge the success of their implementation by taking this information and other information we've build into the Dashboard and surfacing it up in a useful way to the user base.
AdminJeff Fischer
(Lead Problem Developer, Optimizely)
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