Heracles is a microservices application that has evolved over the course of 2020/1 to generate telemetry for understanding and demonstrating Microsoft Application Insights. You should be able to deploy the full application, configured, working and geenrating application insights, with a single click (well almost).

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Introduction

• Background*
• Heracles Application
• Architecture
• Microservice Descriptions
• Deploying Heracles

Data Generation

• Synthetic Transactions
• User Traffic

Exploring Application Insights

• Dashboards
• Application Map
• Smart Detection
• Live Metrics
• Failures
• Performance*
• Availability
• Users*
• Metrics
• Log Analytics*
• Workbooks*
• Costs*

Challenges

• Diagnose an Exception
• Add Availability Monitoring*
• Add an alert*
• Export to Power BI*
• Negative Monitoting*
• Converting to Workspace-based monitoring*

So there it is! Create a 6 microservice application with a single click, generate synthetic transactions and user traffic automatically, then explore the key features of application insights. Demos to show to your colleagues and challenges for further exploration. Find out more about Application Insights* or look at the Frequently Asked Questions*

Please feel free to submit pull requests with your enhancements. We hope this is useful.

--Nick & Vincent