How do I enable Application Insights server telemetry on WebApi project that uses OWIN?

Question

We are having a bunch of problems (read long response times) with a couple of projects in production and wanted to see exactly what was happening on the server. I then proceeded

Answer 1

AI uses httpmodule to collect information on begin request and send it on end request. As described here Owin/Katana uses middelwares to execute logic on a different stages. As most of AI auto collection logic is internal you cannot reuse it in your middleware. But you can instrument your code yourself. Create TelemetryClient from your code and start sending Request, Traces and Exceptions (like described here)