I've built a web API that receives GET requests and processes an image based on specifications passed in like image Url, text to be drawn over it, quality, size, etc.
I have a few questions about using Application Insights, which seems to be built right into my Visual Studio IDE and also Azure.. This question was sparked after viewing this source in my research for the right form of usage analytics:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/app-insights-overview
Questions:
1) Does it require any new code to be used?
2) Can it track individual parameters (image, size, etc.) so we can see, for example, which images are used most often, what sizes images are requested at, etc.?
3) Can we also use it to log custom events that don't neatly map to separate methods or api endpoints? (e.g. log each time we draw a text field, measure a string, load a font, or pull an image from blob storage)
I would really appreciate an answer that could cover my more broad concerns like these about choosing a usage analytics tool. Any suggestions as to what other tools Azure has for these sorts of requirements would also be great.
Thanks for taking the time to read!