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Application Insights
APM and distributed tracing.
Official docsOverview
Application Insights (part of Azure Monitor) instruments apps for telemetry, traces, dependencies and live metrics.
When to use it
- Diagnose slow flows
- Correlate failing e2e tests with backend traces
Setup
- Provision App Insights resource.
- Instrument with SDK or auto-instrumentation.
How to use
Trace propagation
Pass traceparent header from Playwright tests to correlate with backend spans.
QA use cases
- Open the trace for a failing test directly from the report URL.