Azure Application Insights and Web Site projects

Question

Is it possible to add Application Insights to a Web Site project type?

In Visual Studio, the following context menu is available for Web Application projects but is missing for Web Site projects.

Answer 1

Just want to share what I ended up with doing. First of all, it seems to work like a charm.

The Application Insight is implemented as an ASP.NET Module, so in order to hook it up for Web Site project you need to do the following:

1. Add Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web NuGet package

2. Register AI module in web.config

   <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
     <remove name="ApplicationInsightsWebTracking" />
     <add name="ApplicationInsightsWebTracking" type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web.ApplicationInsightsHttpModule, Microsoft.AI.Web" preCondition="managedHandler" />
   </modules>
   

3. Make sure you have ApplicationInsights.config in Web Site base directory (along with web.config) - it defines which telemetry you going to be collecting

Answer 2

You should be able to instrument a Web Site project with Application Insights manually. Here are the instructions.