Use Azure Application Insights with Azure WebJob

Question

The Azure documentation covers many examples of integrating Azure Application Insights into different applications types, such as ASP.NET, Java, etc. However, the documentat

Answer 1

Since the above answer is 2 years old and many things have changed since then. Now there is nuget package available for Application insights integration with Azure Webjobs. You need to install below packages:

1. Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Logging.ApplicationInsights (Currently in beta)
2. Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
3. Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console

Configure JobHostConfiguration as below:

string instrumentationKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("APPINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATIONKEY");
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(instrumentationKey))
{
      // build up a LoggerFactory with ApplicationInsights and a Console Logger
       config.LoggerFactory = new LoggerFactory().AddApplicationInsights(instrumentationKey, null).AddConsole();
       config.Tracing.ConsoleLevel = TraceLevel.Off;
}

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