Using Application Insights with Unit Tests?

Question

I have an MVC web app, and I\'m using Simple Injector for DI. Almost all my code is covered by unit tests. However, now that I\'ve added some telemetry calls in some contr

Answer 1

If you don't want to go down the abstraction / wrapper path. In your tests you could simply direct the AppInsights endpoint to a mock lightweight http server (which is trivial in ASP.NET Core).

appInsightsSettings.json

    "ApplicationInsights": {
    "Endpoint": "http://localhost:8888/v2/track"
}

How to set up "TestServer" in ASP.NET Core http://josephwoodward.co.uk/2016/07/integration-testing-asp-net-core-middleware