Azure-docs: Add Example using App Insights in the Browser

[spottedmahn]

How about adding a snippet about how to use app insights in the browser now that I've configured my ASP.NET Core MVC app for app insights?

Can I just use appInsights.trackEvent({ name: 'blah' }); now?

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• ID: 4b88d8c4-0013-70aa-7997-a2203afd9743
• Version Independent ID: 0ab99d5e-4ebd-8cb9-3d27-efe58def249f
• Content: Azure Application Insights for ASP.NET Core applications
• Content Source: articles/azure-monitor/app/asp-net-core.md
• Service: azure-monitor
• Sub-service: application-insights
• GitHub Login: @mrbullwinkle
• Microsoft Alias: mbullwin

[SamaraSoucy-MSFT]

@spottedmahn Thank you for your feedback. I'll take a look and get back to you shortly.

[SamaraSoucy-MSFT]

You are correct that the site is now setup for using the Javascript SDK and you can call methods like appInsights.trackevent(). I will assign this to the doc author to decide whether or not to add an example in addition to the linked documentation.

[spottedmahn]

FYI appInsights.trackEvent({ name: 'blah' }); didn't "work". The event gets logged but the name was something like '[object object]'.

appInsights.trackEvent('blah'); does work though.

I got the first approach from here. Seems like that doc page is wrong 🚫. Thoughts?

[SamaraSoucy-MSFT]

The JS SDK Github repo has the appInsights.trackEvent({ name: 'blah' }); syntax as well, so it doesn't look like that particular doc is the problem. I'll investigate that further.

[spottedmahn]

I happen to be doing some more work around this today and I re-tested.

appInsights.trackEvent({ name: 'mike d event name test' }); produces:

[spottedmahn]

https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-JS/issues/1097

[spottedmahn]

The API reference has been updated 👍

I opened another issue b/c I results are not lining up with the API reference: https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-JS/issues/1101

[mrbullwinkle]

Closing out as this article now covers all the latest config for the client side JS:https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/app/javascript

[mrbullwinkle]

please-close

[spottedmahn]

great, thanks @mrbullwinkle 🤝