I’ll keep it short and simple this time. Here’s a great way to debug your app across multiple App Insights instances.

So, I have two Azure Functions services running, with one serving as an API, and the other serving as BE processing engine. Both report telemetry to App Insights (different apps), and I am passing a context along from one to the other – so I can correlate exceptions and bugs.

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to see what happened in a single session across the 2 apps?

It’s possible – using ‘app‘ – just plugin the name of the app insights resource you want to query, and a simple ‘union‘.

Here you go:

let session="reReYiRu";
union app('FE-prod').traces, app('BE-prod').traces
| where session_Id == session 
| project timestamp, session_Id, appName, message
| order by timestamp asc 

Don’t forget –

1. You can use the field ‘appName‘ to see which app this particular trace is coming from.
2. Different machines have different times.. Don’t count on the timestamp ordering to always be correct.