Azure Monitor Application Insights

You can integrate Azure Monitor Application Insights (Application Insights) with Access Decision Service (ADS) for performance monitoring and application observability.

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If you use Azure Monitoring, use the Application Insights Java agent for both tracing and metrics.

To run ADS with the Application Insights Java agent, follow the steps below:

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In the commands below, replace <version> with your ADS version and <java_version> with the Java agent version.

1. Export an environment variable with the instrumentation key of the Application Insights resource:

   export APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING=InstrumentationKey=${Ikey}

2. Download the latest auto-instrumentation Java OpenTelemetry (OTel)-based agent for Application Insights from the Application Insights for Java repository on GitHubOpens in a new tab.

3. Start an ADS instance as shown in the example below:

    java -javaagent:applicationinsights-agent-<java_version>.jar -jar access-decision-service-<version>.jar

4. Log in to the Azure account and open your Application Insights Resource.

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   It may take a few minutes for data to appear in the portal.

This setup provides both tracing and metrics data to Azure Monitor.

Further resources

• See Application Insights overviewOpens in a new tab for more information about Azure Monitor Application Insights.

• For information on Prometheus and InfluxDB metrics backends, see Metrics.