Overview
appinsights-instrumentation is an open-source integrations skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by github. Its author describes it as: “Instrument a webapp to send useful telemetry data to Azure App Insights”. The project has 38k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot ~/.claude/skills/appinsights-instrumentation`.
What appinsights-instrumentation does
This skill enables sending telemetry data of a webapp to Azure App Insights for better observability of the app's health.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for appinsights-instrumentation is organised into these sections:
- When to use this skill
- Prerequisites
- Guidelines
- Collect context information
- Prefer auto-instrument if possible
- Manually instrument
Installation
Add appinsights-instrumentation to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot ~/.claude/skills/appinsights-instrumentationReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- GitHub Copilot — declared in the repository topics
License
appinsights-instrumentation is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in github/awesome-copilot, an established project with 37,982 GitHub stars
- Works with GitHub Copilot
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does appinsights-instrumentation do?
- Instrument a webapp to send useful telemetry data to Azure App Insights
- How do I install appinsights-instrumentation?
- Run git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot ~/.claude/skills/appinsights-instrumentation in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot before installing.
- Is appinsights-instrumentation free to use?
- Yes. appinsights-instrumentation is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does appinsights-instrumentation work with?
- appinsights-instrumentation lists GitHub Copilot — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does appinsights-instrumentation come from?
- appinsights-instrumentation ships inside github/awesome-copilot, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 37,982 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.