Sample/Live Metrics.ps1
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.Synopsis Starts logging a live metrics stream to App Insights .DESCRIPTION The logging stream sends a standard set of perfcounters every second, which allows you to monitor essential counters directly in AppInsights. Please note that this will incur a continous stream of performance and statictics to the azure AppInsights portal, this is in the format of a HTTPS traffic stream which will send about 5 to 6 MBytes per hour to https://rt.services.visualstudio.com This information is sent asynchronously from the powershell script or module and requires no interaction other that starting or stopping. Please note that there is only a single LiveMetrics view for each Instrumentation key. > If multiple instances of the same script log to the same Key the counters will be combined > if you need to view seperate LiveMetrics, you need to instrument your scripts with different keys. #> #Instrumentation key $key = "c90dd0dd-3bee-4525-a172-ddb55873d30a" #start logging metrics for this powershell process Start-AILiveMetrics -Key $key 1..10 | % { $mem_stress = @() 1..6 | %{ Write-Host "Eat..." -NoNewline #Eat some memory for ($i = 0; $i -lt 5000; $i++) { $mem_stress += ("a" * 200MB) } Write-Host "Sleep..." -NoNewline Sleep -Seconds 2 } Remove-Variable mem_stress Write-Host "." } Stop-AILiveMetrics |