Getting started with Kusto a.k.a. Application Insights Analytics

Last week Brian told us about Kusto, an internal data analytics tools which then became a component of Application Insights.

You can start using it right away, there is nothing to configure. You’ll find an Analytics button in the Application Insights blade on the Azure portal:

There are lots of samples ready to go – let’s take the first one (distribution of response times in the last 24 hours, by response code):

The language is very straightforward – there is also a guide here. The result will be charted at the bottom:

This is another good one – application requests comparison over a 24 hours period:

Data like this is critical for proactive monitoring as well, you can periodically monitor this dashboard and understand where the bottlenecks are in your application.

It is really a great tool!