Azure Application Insights logs

Question

My requirement is to make data transformations with the logs present in Application Insights and then send this transformed data to SQL database tables ? Continuous export is supported only for classic version of App Insights. Can anyone throw some light on how to deal with this issue

Answer 1

Microsoft recommends the workspace-based Application Insights with diagnostic settings as the alternative of continuous exports. This approach is a bit expensive.

They have given few alternatives like:

• At the top of a metrics, there is an export button which transfer charts & tables
• Via PowerShell, you can use continuous export feature.
• To access programmatically, Data access REST API available.

You have to set up the diagnostic settings menu as log audit data in Archive to a storage account using JSON Format and then fetch the data to SQL Database table from the storage account.

Refer to the Stefano Demiliani blog article of exporting app insights through Diagnostic settings and the Microsoft Official Doc for more information.