AzureWebApp: Monitor Application Logs

Question

I'm building an Azure web-app and if there are certain unexpected errors, I want to be able to bubble it up in the Azure Dashboard / add alerts.

Any System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError() messages are logged to the ApplicationLog. Is there a way to add alert/monitoring-graphs for these in Azure Portal?

Answer 1

Aram's links below really helps. Please read them.

To Get this working:

1. Add the ApplicationInsights to your project.
2. (Optional) If you want log traces (System.Diagnostics.Trace) to be searchable on insights, add Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.TraceListener nuget to your project.
3. Use telemetryClient.TrackException() to place a server exception when you hit a critical error.
4. Add an alert on Azure portal to check for ServerExceptions within the given time window.