Azure Monitor

• Introduction
• Installing the exporter
• Creating the exporter
• Viewing your traces

Introduction

Azure Monitor is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. Offered by Microsoft Azure, it’s a complete at-scale telemetry and monitoring solution.

Installing the exporter

The Azure Monitor exporter can be installed from pip by

pip install opencensus-ext-azure

Creating the exporter

To create the exporters, you’ll need to:

• Use an active Azure account, sign up for free if you haven’t already.
• Create an Azure Monitor resource and get the instrumentation key, more information can be found here.
• Put the instrumentation key in APPINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATIONKEY environment variable.
• Create the exporters in code.

from opencensus.ext.azure.trace_exporter import AzureExporter
from opencensus.trace.samplers import ProbabilitySampler
from opencensus.trace.tracer import Tracer

tracer = Tracer(exporter=AzureExporter(), sampler=ProbabilitySampler(1.0))

with tracer.span(name='hello'):
    print('Hello, World!')

For more information, please refer to README.

Viewing your traces

You can view the traces by using Search, Transaction Diagnostics or Application Map.