Azure analytics workspace as source in a alerts

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I have a hard time here understanding what a log analytics workspace is. As I have a requirement to monitor 7 application insigths out of many. Send emails if some of them throws exceptions. I can see in alerts you can only select a single application insight. And I dont want to create 7 alerts. So my plan was to create a analytics workspace. I havent found anyway to bind application insights to a workspace. Is that possible? I can see you in alerts can choose a analytics workspace as source, but what does that mean? Sounds like you some how can group data in that specific workspace?

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I can see when I create a new Application Insight service i have the option to choose a workspace, but what with existing?

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what do you mean when you say " Send emails if some of them throws exceptions"? the exception is about the Application insights itself, or just the exceptions in the exception table in Application insights? - Ivan Yang
If there is exceptions in AI. - Thomas Segato
you mean if there are any exceptions logged into AI? - Ivan Yang
Yes. I have 5 different application insights. My applications logs into those. When an exception occurs in some of them I want to send an email with alerts. In alerts you can only pick one application insight. And I dont want to create 5 alerts. I would like to gather all of the 5 application isights into one container. As I understand it workspaces are such a container? But how do I load the data into the workspace? So I can select a workspace in the alerts with data from all 5 insights. - Thomas Segato
yes, you can useWorkspace-based Application Insights resources, see answer below:). - Ivan Yang

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So as per your requirement, you can create the Workspace-based Application Insights resources, or connect the existing classical AI to azure log analytics. And of course, these 6 AI should connect to the same azure log analytics.

After you have the the Workspace-based Application Insights resources, the logs are logged into both the AI and the azure log analytics. So when you create an alert rule, select the azure log analytics, and create a custom log search alert rule. That can totally meet your requirement.

And you should also understand the table scheme between AI and Azure log Analytics. For example, in AI, the exceptions are logged in exceptions table; but if it's connected to azure log analytics, then in log analytics, the exceptions are in AppSystemEvents table.