Monitoring Power Apps with Application Insights

To build truly effective business applications, you need to understand how users interact with them and where performance bottlenecks occur. Monitoring and diagnosing app behavior in real-time is the key to maintaining high-quality software. In this text-based course, you will learn how to connect your Power Apps canvas applications to Application Insights to capture rich telemetry data. You will gain the skills to track custom events, diagnose errors, and analyze user patterns to continuously improve your apps. What you'll learn: - Understand the foundational concepts of application instrumentation and telemetry. - Configure Power Apps canvas apps to stream usage data directly to Application Insights. - Write custom trace expressions to log specific user actions and application states. - Query telemetry logs using basic Kusto Query Language (KQL) to extract meaningful insights. - Analyze performance bottlenecks and track error rates to improve app stability. - Apply best practices for data privacy and security when collecting application logs. You will start by mastering core monitoring terminology and setup procedures before moving on to practical log analysis and custom event tracking through written examples and guided scenarios. This course is designed for beginner Power Apps creators and administrators looking to implement professional monitoring; no prior logging or database experience is required. Start reading today to unlock deep visibility into your application performance.