App Insights Instrumentation

by microsoft

App Insights Instrumentation is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in azure-skills.

1.4K stars231 forkson microsoft/azure-skillsAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/18

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Install App Insights Instrumentation

Copy App Insights Instrumentation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/tree/main/skills/appinsights-instrumentation ~/.claude/skills/appinsights-instrumentation

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/appinsights-instrumentation/SKILL.md in microsoft/azure-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/appinsights-instrumentation
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What App Insights Instrumentation does

App Insights Instrumentation provides guidance and reference material for instrumenting web apps with Azure Application Insights, covering telemetry patterns, SDK setup, and configuration. Use it when you need to understand how to instrument applications or consult SDK and platform-specific guides.

App Insights Instrumentation is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. App Insights Instrumentation comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AppInsights Instrumentation Guide

This skill provides guidance and reference material for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights.

⛔ ADDING COMPONENTS?

If the user wants to add App Insights to their app, invoke azure-prepare instead. This skill provides reference material—azure-prepare orchestrates the actual changes.

When to Use This Skill

User asks how to instrument (guidance, patterns, examples)
User needs SDK setup instructions
azure-prepare invokes this skill during research phase
User wants to understand App Insights concepts

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about App Insights Instrumentation

What else does microsoft publish alongside App Insights Instrumentation?
App Insights Instrumentation is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/azure-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Runway AKS Setup, Azure AI and Azure AI Gateway. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way App Insights Instrumentation does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/azure-skills page.
How does App Insights Instrumentation compare to other DevOps skills?
App Insights Instrumentation ranks #346 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of App Insights Instrumentation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.