InSite Search Metrics with Azure Application Insights
Prerequisites: Ingeniux ISS 2.12+ must be installed.
As of InSite Search 2.12.x, we have included custom metrics for Microsoft's Application Insights specific to InSite Search functionsality. These metrics can be used by developers to gather data about your website's search system.
Enabling this feature requires a subscription to Microsoft Azure, and the instructions below assume you have the correct permissions to create Azure resource objects for your subscription. If you are unfamiliar with Application Insights, you may also want to refer to the following Microsoft Azure articles:
To enable Application Insights and view its metrics for InSite Search:
- Open Dynamic_Site_Server_Instance.csproj within the root folder of your DSS installation.
- Navigate to Project > Add Application Insights Telemetry.... This will prompt you to connect to your Azure subscription from within Visual Studio.
- Once connected, click on "Configure settings..." in the Application Insights Registration view. You can then set a custom name value for both Resource Group name and Application Insights Resource name for your DSS project.
- Save the new resource and press the "Register" button to register your DSS project to your Azure subscription. This will also install the required NuGet packages for Application Insights for the project.
- Go to https://portal.azure.com > Application Insights. You will now see your new resource. New data starts to display after your first visit to the site.
- Click Monitor then click the Metrics utility in the left pane. The Metrics view displays.
- In the Metrics view, click the Metric Namespace drop-down list, select azure.applicationinsights.
- Click the Metric drop-down list, which contains the custom InSite Search metrics in the list. The custom metrics data will be available once there is indexed search data and the corresponding event is triggered by InSite Search:
Custom Event Description InSiteSearch_ContentIndex_TotalDocsCount Total document count to index. InSiteSearch_ContentIndex_TotalTermsCount Total terms count on the index. InSiteSearch_Indexing_Count Number of pages indexed. InSiteSearch_Indexing_Duration_Seconds Time taken for each query.