AppInsights equivalent of gauge

Question

Is there an equivalent of StatsD's gauge type of metric for Azure Application Insights?

I'm using TrackMetric method of a TelemetryClient to periodically inspect and report metrics from an Azure Function.

I'd like to see a continuous line instead of a seesaw like chart in the Metrics Explorer (difficult to reason if the value sent was 0 or if there was no value sent)

Using Application Insights Analytics these charts ara available. — Peter Bons
so I should rather look at Azure Log Analytics queries and try to coalesce using my defined frequency of reporting values — Horia Toma

Horia Toma Horia Toma · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-10T12:36:51

I used @peter-bons' suggestion and set up for an Analytics query that looks something like this:

customMetrics
| where name == "my_metric_count" 
| where timestamp > ago(4h)
| summarize sum(value) by bin(timestamp, 15m)

AppInsights equivalent of gauge

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