Statsbeat in Azure Application Insights

Statsbeat collects essential and non-essential custom metric about Application Insights SDKs and auto-instrumentation. Statsbeat serves three benefits for Azure Monitor Application insights customers:

• Service Health and Reliability (outside-in monitoring of connectivity to ingestion endpoint)
• Support Diagnostics (self-help insights and CSS insights)
• Product Improvement (insights for design optimizations)

Statsbeat data is stored in a Microsoft data store. It doesn't impact customers' overall monitoring volume and cost.

Statsbeat doesn't support Azure Private Link.

What data does Statsbeat collect?

Statsbeat collects essential and non-essential metrics.

Supported languages

C#	Java	JavaScript	Node.js	Python
Currently Not supported	Supported	Currently Not supported	Supported	Supported

Supported EU Regions

Java

Statseat supports EU Data Boundary for Application Insights resources in the following regions:

Geo Name	Region Name
Europe	North Europe
Europe	West Europe
France	France Central
France	France South
Germany	Germany West Central
Norway	Norway East
Norway	Norway West
Sweden	Sweden Central
Switzerland	Switzerland North
Switzerland	Switzerland West

Node

N/A

Python

N/A

Essential Statsbeat

Network Statsbeat

Metric Name	Unit	Supported dimensions
Request Success Count	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version, Endpoint, Host
Requests Failure Count	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version, Endpoint, Host, Status Code
Request Duration	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version, Endpoint, Host
Retry Count	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version, Endpoint, Host, , Status Code
Throttle Count	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version, Endpoint, Host, Status Code
Exception Count	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version, Endpoint, Host, Exception Type

Note

On March 31, 2025, support for instrumentation key ingestion will end. Instrumentation key ingestion will continue to work, but we'll no longer provide updates or support for the feature. Transition to connection strings to take advantage of new capabilities.

Attach Statsbeat

Metric Name	Unit	Supported dimensions
Attach	Count	Resource Provider, Resource Provider Identifier, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version

Feature Statsbeat

Metric Name	Unit	Supported dimensions
Feature	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Feature, Type, Operating System, Language, Version

Non-essential Statsbeat

Track the Disk I/O failure when using disk persistence for retriable telemetry

Metric Name	Unit	Supported dimensions
Read Failure Count	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version
Write Failure Count	Count	Resource Provider, Attach Type, Instrumentation Key, Runtime Version, Operating System, Language, Version

Configure Statsbeat

Java

To disable non-essential Statsbeat, add the below configuration to your config file.

{
  "preview": {
    "statsbeat": {
        "disabled": "true"
    }
  }
}

You can also disable this feature by setting the environment variable APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_STATSBEAT_DISABLED to true (which will then take precedence over disabled specified in the json configuration).

Node

Not supported yet.

Python

Not supported yet.