azure_application_insights 2.0.0

A Dart client for Azure's Application Insights service

Azure Application Insights

What?

This is a Dart library that integrates with Azure's Application Insights service. It allows you to push telemetry items into your Application Insights instance.

Why?

Application Insights is a powerful tool for understanding how your software system is operating. In the context of Flutter applications, it allows you to deeply understand user interactions, performance, and faults in your application.

Where?

You can install this library via pub by adding the following to your pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  azure_application_insights: ^1.0.0

How?

The only piece of information you need to integrate with Application Insights is your instrumentation key, which you can find inside the Azure portal. Open your Application Insights resource and look in the Overview tab.

Once you have your instrumentation key, you can construct a TelemetryClient as follows:

final processor = BufferedProcessor(
  next: TransmissionProcessor(
    instrumentationKey: instrumentationKey,
    httpClient: client,
    timeout: const Duration(seconds: 10),
  ),
);

final telemetryClient = TelemetryClient(
  processor: processor,
);

This is a typical setup where telemetry items are buffered before being transmitted. Depending on your processing needs, you may have a need for more than one TelemetryClient in your application. For example, you might have one TelemetryClient that buffers telemetry items and is used for all telemetry other than errors, and a second that does not buffer and is used only to submit errors as promptly as possible. Please review the example code and API docs for alternative configurations.

Once you have a TelemetryClient, you can simply invoke the various methods to capture telemetry items:

telemetryClient.trackTrace(
  severity: Severity.information,
  message: 'Hello from Dart!',
);

You may also want to configure additional properties to be submitted with telemetry items. These can be configured in two places:

1. On the TelemetryContext associated with your TelemetryClient. Properties in this context object will be attached to every telemetry item submitted. Moreover, you can share a TelemetryContext between multiple TelemetryClient instances if desired.
2. Every method on TelemetryClient allows you to specify additionalProperties that will be captured only for that telemetry item. As the name suggests, these properties are in addition to those within the context.

HTTP Middleware

Whilst you can certainly use TelemetryClient.trackRequest to track HTTP requests yourself, you can save time by using the TelemetryHttpClient HTTP client. This class will automatically time requests and forward on the details of completed requests to a given TelemetryClient as request telemetry items.

Typical usage looks like this:

final telemetryHttpClient = TelemetryHttpClient(
  telemetryClient: telemetryClient,
  inner: Client(),
);

// This request will be captured as a request telemetry item.
await telemetryHttpClient.get('https://kent-boogaart.com/');

The TelemetryHttpClient could be one piece in a long chain of HTTP middleware - it is composable.

Who?

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Kent Boogaart 💻 ⚠️ 📖 💡

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!