How to Integrate Azure Application Insights into Your Python App

Azure Application Insights is a powerful tool for monitoring your applications' performance, availability, and usage. By integrating it into your Python application, you can gain valuable insights into how your app is being used, identify potential bottlenecks, and troubleshoot issues efficiently.

In this post, we’ll walk through the steps to set up Azure Application Insights for a Python application.

Why Use Azure Application Insights?

Azure Application Insights offers features such as:

• Performance Monitoring: Track response times, request rates, and dependency performance.
• Error Tracking: Identify and resolve exceptions and crashes.
• Usage Analysis: Understand user interactions and behavior.
• Custom Metrics: Track custom events and metrics specific to your application.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have:

1. An Azure account: Sign up here if you don’t have one.
2. Application Insights resource: Create an Application Insights resource in the Azure portal.
3. Python environment: Ensure Python 3.6 or higher is installed.