This talk will dive into connecting a module to Azure Application Insights in order to collect telemetry data. In very few, easy steps we will see how data is being transmitted, what the caveats are and what good telemetry can look like. We will talk about visualizing this data in a meaningful way and see why immediate feedback can be extremely beneficial to the development process. This is not only useful for Dev but also for Ops people looking for ways to visualize deployments on-premises or in the cloud and much more.

Telemetry is part of PowerShell Core and we added it to AutomatedLab to see how our module is used. The insight this has given us was tremendous and I feel that knowing when and how to use telemetry in a script or module is beneficial to administrators and developers alike. Making work visible is an important part of our jobs as dev and ops people and telemetry can play a major part in that.