One highly useful feature of the Classic Metrics Explorer is the ability to click the chart to jump directly to a Search blade with corresponding filters and time range already set up.
For example, if I have a Classic Metrics Explorer chart on my dashboard with Failed Requests for the last 12 hours filtered to a specific Cloud Role Name, I can click the chart to get to a dedicated blade for that chart, then click the chart on that blade (heck, I can even click-drag to easily filter time further first) to get to a Search blade which shows failed requests for the last 12 hours for that specific Cloud Role Name. This allows me with just a few clicks to easily drill down into the specific telemetry items related to anything I see in the original chart, such as traces for the failed requests.
The gif below demonstrates this, clicking on a Classic Metrics Explorer chart on the dashboard to get to its own blade, and then clicking the chart there to get to the Search blade:
This does not seem to be possible with the new Metrics explorer. Clicking a chart on the dashboard gets you to the Metrics blade for that chart, but clicking the chart there does not have any effect. See the gif below:
This means that whenever I want to drill down into some data I see on a Metrics chart/blade, I have to go to the search blade and manually set up the correct filters. When there's a high number of services, this takes significantly more time to the point of being completely out of the question, which is a shame, because the new Metrics charts are better in other ways (e.g. integration with the dashboard-wide time range).
Have I missed something, or is it simply not possible to go from the new Metrics charts to relevant telemetry items? Is there a workaround that makes the job of going from charts to related telemetry items easier when using new Metrics charts?
Unfortunately, this is a known limitation of the new metrics explorer.
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I am currenty setting up a new dashboard in application insights to monitor our applications in detail. To do so, I am logging custom events from my application, and using a log query, I generate a Stacked Column Chart. Like so:
Chart. Notice that I am grouping on multiple dimensions, and the generated chart lets me pick which Dimension I want. (As documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/log-query/charts#multiple-dimensions)
Now, when I pin this chart to my dashboard, I lose the ability to pick the dimension I want to see there. (Dashboard chart) Is there some way to retain this, or do I have to create and pin multiple charts, one for each dimension?
You are right. Changing the dimensions of existing parts are not supported yet.
We plan to support this in the future.
I'll ask here once we add this support.
I have a fully functional and working code (written in C#) which purpose is to track some hits to the specified GA property. This code has been tested and still works successfully. It adds some predefined dimensions (like App Version) to each hit and a several custom metrics to a certain hit types (like event with a certain Event Action).
So far so good everything works flawlessly when taking into account the first property to which these hits are being sent. Also everything is fine when I set up a brand new GA property and track my hits to it - that is, I'm able to see events in Realtime reports, and events show up in custom reports after a while so that I can see my custom metrics.
The issue is that when I try to send absolutely the same hits to the existing property which had been created and configured ages ago - there is no both dimensions (even predefined) and custom metrics in my custom reports. I see these events in realtime and behavior reports, and I'm even able to create a custom report against events count - but that's it. I'm able to use for example Day of the month as a primary dimension, but when I try to use App Version as a dimension or my custom metrics as report metrics - it says "There is no data for this view.".
I've already tried everything I could, have read almost every post about custom definitions in Google and viewed almost each related SO question and answer - still with no luck.
We use measurement protocol
There is a correct User Agent being sent with each hit
17 days has passed since my first attempt to track these hits with existing property
There is no filters and segments at all
There is only one view
For me it looks like a property misconfiguration, but I've inspected each configuration page (I have all possible rights granted) and have not found anything related.
Will appreciate any help with this issue.
UPD: The hit itself (with the sensitive data replaced):
t=event&ec=session&ea=connection_end&el=b225d53a-6bb2-8021-f7b5-ae7004ae0a00&cm1=174960&cm2=1751494&cm3=479033&tid=UA-XXXXXXX-X&cid=4119e77f-be87-4530-04d3-33882f8eea77&v=1&av=XX.XX.99.555&an=my-awesome-app&aid=app.awesome.my
UPD: Here is what I'm trying to achieve (screenshot was made at the test property, where everything works like a charm):
The application insights APIs let you record custom events for user-defined purposes. They also let you record custom properties on those events.
The Application Insights chart control on the Azure Portal however, appears to have some annoying limitation.
Let's say we have two event names:
Login: A user logged in.
Work: The application started some expensive background job, which happens independently of any user action on various conditions.
Then I likely don't want those event types to be series in the same chart. In particular, I may want to do a grouping by user or something similar in case of Login, but that would make no sense for the Work type.
They really have nothing to do with each other and I'd like to have them in different charts.
I do, however, want them to be in the same chart control (the whole white rectangle thing that groups charts together and where you set the time scope and filters on).
The following missing features would each solve the problem:
If it was allowed to set a filter on individual charts rather than only the chart control as a whole.
If each event name would appear as a distinct metric to select.
I know there's also Analytics, but then I still don't have the new chart in the same old chart control.
Is there another option I overlooked?
There's no way to do this in any one specific metrics explorer window, like you said, filters apply to the whole window.
But you can do this by creating a dashboard, and pinning individual metrics explorer charts (or grids, or whatever) to that dashboard.
make a new dashboard, and name it something distinctive
create one of the charts you want with the right filters in a standard metrics explorer part.
pin that chart to the dashboard created in step 1.
repeat steps 2 and 3 to create each chart with its own settings
go to that dashboard, and resize / configure each chart the way you want it
I have successfully used kibana (4.3.1) to make a dashboard with several visualizations. Great! Now I would like to add some input controls to allow filtering. I know that you can manually enter filters in the query bar, for example 'myCol:[low TO high]' but this is problematic for a couple of reasons. First, the syntax is a little too advanced for casual users (although I could use the metadata visualization to document the syntax). Second, the query bar goes away when exporting the dashboard via iframe.
I have tried using the metric visualization to display a min and max values. Unfortunately, the metric visualization is read only.
I have tried a bar chart to allow range filtering but my users will need to select very specific ranges that result in selection areas of only a few pixels. This is error prone and not precise enough.
Any other ideas on how to create input controls for easy filtering? I was hoping find some sort of dial that is tied to a column to allow users an easy way to apply filters.
Thanks,
Nathan
Check working with filters section in the documentation. Selecting a filter changes dashboard URL and includes snippet like (filters:!((meta:(disabled:!t,index:'myIndex_*',key:MyTermToFilter,negate:!f,value:'MyValueToFilter'). Once you have all the filters you want your users to change in the URL, after they navigate to that URL they will be able to enable/disable them in the UI
In Google analytics how can i get a metric to put "number of active users on website at any one time". I want to put it against past date periods.
I.E I was scrolling through the metrics, trying to add a widget to my dashboard but, I can't find this metric!
It looks like it's possible because google analytics uses it on their standard report, real-time, "current active visitors on website"
How can I achieve this?
Simply, you can't out of the box. There are some limitations in real-time reports and the ways GA counts unique visitors.
However, if you do not need a detailed analysis, this custom report might do the work (just import it for your Analytics Profile/View and click Customization tab). It basically shows the generic numbers (you can change them to fit your needs) according to hour of a day.
Add any secondary metrics to find out how numbers change in days/weekends etc. Or you can slice the data with segments and see if some traffic is more active in the morning etc.
Hope hits helps.
PS: Beware of data sampling...