Analytics on a web application - azure-application-insights

Question

We have an web application. Part of web the application is profiles. Profiles have following urls:
/Profile/1
/Profile/2
/Profile/3
We also have Adds. Add's urls are as following:
/Add/1
/Add/2
/Add/3
I need a view of top 20 most viewed profiles and top 20 most viewed add's and how many views they have. It must also be possible to extract those two lists with c#. Can this be achieved with log analytics? Do you need to extract everything your self from application insights and do analytics your self, or how would you achieve this?
I made a little POC. I have added following to AI. The https://gac/url/1 has thousands of id's. Maybe there us 244 views on https://gac/url/1 and 1128 views on https://gac/url/2and so forth.
I noticed that Id is not added to the log. See code below:
public void WritePageView(string name, string id, Uri url)
{
var pageView = new PageViewTelemetry
{
Name = name,
Id = id,
Url = url
};
pageView.Properties.Add("Id", "1");
telemetry.TrackPageView(pageView);
}
What I need is a top 20 (top x) of which https://gac/url is most visited. Something like:
https://gac/url1: 3434
https://gac/url1: 2432
https://gac/url1: 1298
https://gac/url1: 8211
..
If showed in a graph to would be really great.
So it would be something like group by name and Id. But as Id is only pressent in the url how do I extract that?

Answer 1

It's easy to use analytics query for application insights.
Nav to your azure portal -> application insights -> Logs(Analytics), the related info should be in the pageViews table. When you write your query, you can set custom "Time Range" via UI or use where clause.
You can get all the pageViews info by just write "pageViews", screenshot as below:
And you can use Summarize operator and count operator to get the total views count for each page. Sample query code like below:
pageViews
| summarize totalCount = count(url) by url
| order by totalCount desc
The result as below:
If you want to only get the top 2 most views page, use the following code:
pageViews
| summarize totalCount = count(url) by url
| order by totalCount desc
| top 2 by totalCount