Azure Insights is optional. When / If you do turn it on, it can trace exceptions, and give you some performance timings and even SQL queries executed (even EF queries)
there is an overhead "The impact on your app's performance is small. " https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview I have not used App Insights as a logging target, and just used logging to the file system. Hope this helps. Don. On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 13:02, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not done this myself, but have you configured tracing to write to App >> Insights like >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/asp-net-trace-logs#install-logging-on-your-app >> ? >> > > I've been under the impression that Insights is optional and overkill when > I just want plain text logging output to blob storage. Despite all my > reading, I can't figure out if Insight is compulsory or not in what > circumstances. I don't want to activate some extra configurable plumbing if > I don't have to. Do I have to? > > Most articles say that simply doing a Trace.WriteLine will generate > output, without the need for anything else, but not for me. > > *Greg* >
