Prerequisites

• Create Application Insights
• Application Insights Resource provider: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.AppInsights

Adding Application Insights to APIM

• Go to resource groups: https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseResourceGroups
• Select resource group > API Management service
• Monitoring section > Application Insights
• Add > Select Application Insights > Enter description
• Create
• Logger (i.e. ‘insights-for-apim’) will be created and that logger will be used to configure application insights at API level settings**

Enable Application Insights

• Go to resource groups: https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseResourceGroups
• Select resource group > API Management service
• APIs section > APIs > Select target API
• All Operations > Settings
• Diagnostics Logs > Application Insights > Enable
• Fillup detsils
  • Destination -> Select Logger (i.e. ‘insights-for-apim’) that created before
  • Sampling (too much logging will slow it down)
  • etc.
• Save

Metrics

• Telemetry data
• Can be sued to create charts

Creating a chart

• Go to resource groups: https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseResourceGroups
• Select resource group > API Management service
• Monitoring section > Metrics
• New chart (“Pin to Dashborad” if you need)

Alrets

• Create Alerts rules
• Based on condition, perform actions i.e. send notification email, trigger event etc. (i.e. Logic app, functions etc)

Creating Alert rule

• Go to resource groups: https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseResourceGroups
• Select resource group > API Management service
• Monitoring section > Alerts
• New Alert rule > fillup details
• Create alert rule

Activity logs

Traces changes of APIM configurations