Use Azure Application Insights with Azure WebJob

I have written a console application that tracks events and metrics via Application Insights, and I figure a WebJob won't be all that different, by adding the following NuGet packages:

• Microsoft.ApplicationInsights
• Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.TraceListener (this may not be required)

My ApplicationInsights.config looks like this:

<ApplicationInsights xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ApplicationInsights/2013/Settings">    <TelemetryModules>        <Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.Implementation.Tracing.DiagnosticsTelemetryModule, Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" />    </TelemetryModules></ApplicationInsights>

And the simple program does this:

TelemetryConfiguration.Active.InstrumentationKey = "the_key";TelemetryConfiguration.Active.TelemetryChannel.DeveloperMode = true;var tc = new TelemetryClient();tc.TrackRequest("Track Some Request", DateTimeOffset.UtcNow, new TimeSpan(0, 0, 3), "200", true);tc.TrackMetric("XYZ Metric", 100);tc.TrackEvent("Tracked Event");tc.Flush(); //need to do this, otherwise if the app exits the telemetry data won't be sent

There is also this: Application Insights on Windows Desktop apps, services and worker roles

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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