appinsights-instrumentation

appinsights-instrumentation is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure. It costs 61 tokens per session (853 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for adding Azure Application Insights to web applications. Application Insights is an Azure service that collects application telemetry, such as performance and diagnostic data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Application Insights SDK setup, web-app instrumentation, telemetry configuration, and application-performance monitoring guidance.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose suitable telemetry patterns and configure the required software libraries. This makes application monitoring easier to set up correctly.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the azure plugin — 35 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for Application Insights SDK setup, web-app instrumentation, telemetry configuration, and application-performance monitoring guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/appinsights-instrumentation
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill appinsights-instrumentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 853 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00061 $0.00853
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00341
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b18814cf8ca5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appinsights-instrumentation scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/appinsights.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/azure-skills/skills/appinsights-instrumentation/SKILL.md · 79 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines b18814cf8ca5
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 77 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 9b9b19b1a8e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appinsights-instrumentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure (261 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 853 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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