Azure-cli: Application Insights resources

[rcarmo]

Is there a roadmap for creating App Insights resources via the CLI without resorting to resource create?

[rcarmo]

For the record, this is how I'm doing it now. But being able to do this in a cleaner way and also having a command to create and retrieve application instrumentation keys would be nice:

    az resource create \
        --resource-group $RESOURCE_GROUP \
        --resource-type "Microsoft.Insights/components" \
        --name $NAMESPACE_PREFIX-appinsights \
        --location $PRIMARY_LOCATION \
        --properties '{"ApplicationId":"facerecognition","Application_Type":"other", "Flow_Type":"Redfield", "Request_Source":"IbizaAIExtension"}'

[tjprescott]

Thanks for your interest @rcarmo.

cc/ @mayurid @twitchax

[kizotheitguy]

Thanks for the command..
The below should help retrieve application instrumentation keys

az resource show -g $RESOURCEGROUPNAME -n $APPLICATION_NAME --resource-type "Microsoft.Insights/components" --query properties.InstrumentationKey

[Dave76]

Thanks for the tips, but any ETA on when there will be an az insights cli command?

[Jarlotee]

Does anyone know how to create an API key through the CLI?

[joshgav]

cc @nikmd23, this would be helpful for programmatically setting up an app insights space and referencing the instrumentation key.

[arjenbloemsma]

This does work. However, when I "connect" the resulting Application Insights to an app service (function app) by using the instrumentation key the Application Map seems not to work. Any ideas on that?

[nikmd23]

I've looped in the right people at AppInsights to see this thread!

[kuvinodms]

@yugangw-msft
I'm trying following command (Azure CLI version - 2.0.52) but its not working for me:

az resource create --resource-group myresourcegroup --name myappinsights --resource-type Microsoft.Insights/components --location southcentralus --properties '{"Application_Type":"web"}'

Error:
Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\knack\knack\cli.py", line 206, in invoke
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py", line 328, in execute
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py", line 386, in _run_jobs_serially
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py", line 379, in _run_job
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\six\six.py", line 693, in reraise
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py", line 356, in _run_job
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py", line 171, in __call__
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core__init__.py", line 441, in default_command_handler
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\azure-cli-resource\azure\cli\command_modules\resource\custom.py", line 754, in create_resource
File "C:\Users\VSSADM1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bb1gu7gd\azure-cli-resource\azure\cli\command_modules\resource\custom.py", line 1753, in create_resource
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\json__init__.py", line 354, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\json\decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\json\decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Am I missing anything here ?

[markheath]

@kuvinodms It can be really hard to escape the properties JSON correctly. So I tend to save it to a JSON file and then pass it to the Azure CLI with the --properties @props.json syntax

Here's an example using PowerShell and the Azure CLI:

'{"Application_Type":"web"}' | Out-File props.json
az resource create `
    -g $resourceGroup -n $appInsightsName `
    --resource-type "Microsoft.Insights/components" `
    --properties "@props.json"

see my article here

[zakimaksyutov]

Thank you @markheath, file approach did work for me.

[NicoSorrenti]

The file approach works just as expected, but if anybody wants to use the command in PowerShell without writing to a file, the JSON can be escaped adding a \ in the double quotes works, like this:

az resource create --resource-group myresourcegroup --name myappinsights --resource-type Microsoft.Insights/components --location southcentralus --properties '{\"Application_Type\":\"web\"}'
(taking the @kuvinodms code as an example)

[markheath]

@NicoSorrenti thanks - I thought I'd tried that, but I'll give it another go.

[yugangw-msft]

Closing. PR made from @alexeldeib has taken care of this.
To use it, please run "az extension add -n application-insights", and you will see related commands under az monitor app-insights. Once commands are stabilized, we will move them to CLI's core monitor command module