Azure Application Insights Integration in Bold Reports^®

Integrating Azure Application Insights with Bold Reports^® allows you to leverage the powerful analytics and telemetry capabilities of Azure Application Insights within your Bold Reports^® environment. This integration can provide valuable insights into your report’s performance, usage, and other metrics, helping you optimize your reporting processes and make more informed decisions.

Prerequisites

• An Azure account

• Install Bold Reports^® On-Premise and login with an administrator account.

Instructions for setting up Azure Application Insights in Bold Reports^®

1. Log in to the Azure portal.

2. Click on Create a resource, search for Application Insights as follows and then click Create.

   

3. Fill in the necessary information and the click Review + create.

   Subscription: This should be associated with the Azure subscription.

   Resource group: Choose Create new and enter the name of the new resource group, or select an existing resource group.

   Name: Enter a name for the resource.

   Region: Select your preferred region.

4. The deployment of the Application Insights will begin, and you can track the progress of the deployment here.

5. After successful deployment, navigate to the respective resource.

6. Copy the Connection String in the Overview section.

7. Paste the copied connection string into ApplicationInsightsConnectionString located at Settings -> Configuration -> reporting/config.json, and save the changes as shown in the screenshots below.

8. Then, restart the Bold Reports^® Enterprise application.

Now, Application Insights is integrated with the Bold Reports^® On-Premise application. You can confirm this by viewing the Live metrics in Application Insights.

Application Insights integrates with Azure Log Analytics, allowing you to query and analyze log data for deeper insights.

Monitoring Logs in Application Insights

1. After successful integration, go to the Overview page.

2. Click Search and input the necessary log content to locate the logs you require.

Quering in application insights

Navigate to the Logs menu, then Run the necessary query to retrieve the logs you need.

1. To find the debug-info logs, you need to perform a query as traces and click Run.

   traces

   

2. To find the error logs, you need to perform a query such as exceptions and click Run. Then you will receive the results as shown in the following screenshot.

   exceptions

   

3. To find the debug-info logs for specific service, execute the query as follows:

   • web(reporting.web)

     traces
     | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.web"

     

   • jobs(reporting.jobs)

     traces
     | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.jobs"

     

   • api(reporting.api)

     traces
     | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.api"

     

   • viewer(reporting.viewer)

     traces
     | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.viewer"

     

4. To find the error logs for specific service, execute the query as follows:

   • web(reporting.web)

     exceptions
     | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.web"

   • jobs(reporting.jobs)

     exceptions
     | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.jobs"

   • api(reporting.api)

     exceptions
     | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.api"

   • viewer(reporting.viewer)

     exceptions
     | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.viewer"

5. To filter logs by date and time, execute the following query:

   traces
   | where timestamp >= datetime(2024-03-21T00:00:00Z) and timestamp <= datetime(2024-03-21T23:59:59Z)

   Replace with your specific date and time as needed.

   

6. You can retrieve the logs by specifying the specific contents within the log.

   traces
   | search "keyword"

   Replace keyword with the search content.

   

7. You can combine two queries as shown below to find the log. The provided query targets logs related to the reporting.web service occurring after March 21, 2024. Specifically, it searches for log entries where the SystemSettings parameter is not null.

   traces
   | where customDimensions["loggername"] == "reporting.web" and timestamp >= datetime(2024-03-21T00:00:00Z)
   | search "SystemSettings is not null"

   

8. To retrieve all the request calls in the application, execute the below query:

   requests

   

9. To retrieve frequent requests by URL count, use the following query:

   requests
   | summarize RequestCount = count() by url
   | order by RequestCount desc

   

10. To count the number of requests made to a specific URL endpoint, use the following query:

    requests
    | where url == " http://localhost:51778/reporting/site/insights1/reports/d9116932-b3bb-4a8a-92b2-1c7ea7bd7193/Tutorial Sample/Table?showmyreports=1"
    | summarize count() by url

    

11. To retrieve requests based on the name of a report, use the following query:

    requests
    | where url contains "Invoice"
    | summarize count() by url

    Replace the name Invoice with the report name based on the search.

Export logs

You have the option to export logs from Application Insights.

1. Navigate to Application Insights, then select the Logs menu. Run the necessary query to generate the required logs.

2. Then, select the Export option for the generated logs and choose CSV.

3. Once downloaded, you can view the logs locally by opening the CSV file.

Live metrics

1. Navigate to Application Insights, then click on the Live metrics menu.

2. On the Live metrics page, you can see all the live request traces under the Sample telemetry tab.

Events

1. Navigate to the Events menu in Application Insights.

2. Then click View More Insights, and it will load all the event statistics.

3. Click on the request for which you want to see the full details of the event.

Successful Requests

1. Navigate to the Performance menu in Application Insights.

2. Successful requests are available on the Performance page. From there, you can click on the desired request to view its detailed traces.

Failed Requests

• Navigate to the Failures request menu page in Application Insights, where failed requests are available. From there, you can click on the desired request to view its detailed traces.