appinsights-instrumentation

appinsights-instrumentation is a skill for Claude Code from Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (651 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of appinsights-instrumentation, MIT.

A setup guide for adding Azure Application Insights telemetry to eligible web apps. Telemetry is data about an app’s activity and health, such as requests and failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose automatic or manual instrumentation, create the required Application Insights resource, and update the app to send monitoring data.
Why use it?
It helps you see whether an Azure-hosted ASP.NET Core or Node.js app is working properly without guessing from code alone.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose automatic or manual instrumentation, create the required Application Insights resource, and update the app to send monitoring data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tyler-r-kendrick/agent-skills/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 Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills --skill appinsights-instrumentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 651 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00127 $0.00651
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00065

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4644789ccdd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to appinsights-instrumentation — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agent/skills/appinsights-instrumentation/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AppInsights instrumentation

This skill enables sending telemetry data of a webapp to Azure App Insights for better observability of the app's health.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user wants to enable telemetry for their webapp.

Prerequisites

The app in the workspace must be one of these kinds

  • An ASP.NET Core app hosted in Azure
  • A Node.js app hosted in Azure

Guidelines

Collect context information

Find out the (programming language, application framework, hosting) tuple of the application the user is trying to add telemetry support in. This determines how the application can be instrumented. Read the source code to make an educated guess. Confirm with the user on anything you don't know. You must always ask the user where the application is hosted (e.g. on a personal computer, in an Azure App Service as code, in an Azure App Service as container, in an Azure Container App, etc.).

Prefer auto-instrument if possible

If the app is a C# ASP.NET Core app hosted in Azure App Service, use AUTO guide to help user auto-instrument the app.

Manually instrument

Manually instrument the app by creating the AppInsights resource and update the app's code.

Create AppInsights resource

Use one of the following options that fits the environment.

  • Add AppInsights to existing Bicep template. See examples/appinsights.bicep for what to add. This is the best option if there are existing Bicep template files in the workspace.
  • Use Azure CLI. See scripts/appinsights.ps1 for what Azure CLI command to execute to create the App Insights resource.

No matter which option you choose, recommend the user to create the App Insights resource in a meaningful resource group that makes managing resources easier. A good candidate will be the same resource group that contains the resources for the hosted app in Azure.

Modify application code
  • If the app is an ASP.NET Core app, see ASPNETCORE guide for how to modify the C# code.
  • If the app is a Node.js app, see NODEJS guide for how to modify the JavaScript/TypeScript code.
  • If the app is a Python app, see PYTHON guide for how to modify the Python code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 49 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 4644789ccdd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appinsights-instrumentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 651 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to appinsights-instrumentation, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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