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Oh my – some dashboard candy that is life changing

A month or so ago we opened a Visual Studio Team Services instance in Canada and yesterday it occurred to me to wonder how that was going.  I sent mail to someone who "owns" that scenario and after a little back and forth I had the answer.  He then asked me if I wanted to see that data on a regular basis for all our instances and I said no, ...

Introducing Application Insights Analytics

Last month, in a post, I wrote about a VS Team Services outage, I mentioned (and showed some results from) a new tool we've been working on that we internally call "Kusto".  We've now made a preview of Kusto publicly available as "Application Insights Analytics". Kusto is a phenomenal tool.  I can't say enough good stuff about it.  I can ...

A Real Madrid story

Real Madrid is one of the biggest and most successful sports franchises in the world.  Over the past several months we’ve been working with them to build some digital experiences to provide their fans the best possible experience.  As part of that, they wanted to have a great way to understand how their mobile/cloud experiences...

Microsoft acquires HockeyApp

I’m excited to announce our acquisition of HockeyApp – the next step in our journey to turn Application Insights into the best tool in the world for helping you get insight into your applications.  With HockeyApp we add great support for mobile devices, allowing you see more of your application and helping you answer: 1) Is my application...