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Chizzle
Chizzle

Reputation: 1715

AppInsights - Monitor for Hung Processes

We are looking at implementing AppInsights for our non-web application. One of the things that we want to monitor for is processes that may be "hung" for more than N number of seconds or minutes. I have been unable to find something built in that does this. The closest thing I have seen or thought of would be to log 2 custom events for the start and end of a process, and then have an alert for a custom log that queries events with no matching "end" event after N minutes.

Is there another way to monitor for hung processes using AppInsights that I am not seeing? Thanks for any help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 378

Answers (1)

Ivan Glasenberg
Ivan Glasenberg

Reputation: 29985

If you choose to use application insights, here is the suggestion just for your reference(but if you have another better solution, you can ignore this):

As per this post, you can leverage heartbeat feature, details as below:

    if this application runs more than several seconds, you can leverage heartbeat 
feature - it sends metric every N minutes/seconds (configurable) and the absence of such
 metric will indicate that application is no longer actively running. However, if 
Application Insights thread survives, then heartbeat will still be reported.    

    You can rely on presense/absense of the telemetry from this app in general as well as 
couple custom events as you outlined above - Azure Monitor allows to set an alert on 
analytics query, so you'll be able to craft a query that returns nothing in case of 
application issues and set an alert on 0 count returned by such a query.

Upvotes: 2

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