Using CodeLens to display the Application Insights Exception Telemetry in Visual Studio

You can now leverage the CodeLens to display the Exception telemetry inside Visual Studio. Application Insights Exception details now can be accessible and display via CodeLens in Visual Studio. As long as you are connected with Application Insights, the CodeLens exception indicator will display the count of exception and details for each method over the past 24 hrs.

When there is no exception, it will show count as 0 along with time elapsed from the last request time to get the exception details (Queried <timespan> ago ).

Exception details will be displayed as  the red color Application Insights exception indicators.  Tooltip window also categorized the type of exception and display the count of each of category.

We can find the details of exception or tread either by each category or all of them together.

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Following images shows the trends of all exception using “Application Insights Trends” tool.

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All in all this is very useful and quick access to your exception information.

Hope this helps.