Azure Application Insights helps us to monitor applications health in real time. We can track our application availability, performance issues, user’s session and diagnose crashes faster than ever. The User Flow in Application Insights helps in Visualizing overall user navigation across pages and across multiple sessions. This is an extremely useful feature that provides several important analysis of your application. You can save and share Application Insights User Flows, that allows other users to access the saved reports for further references.
Sharing Application Insights User Flows
Select the “User Flows” to generate the user flow map. It will generate the graphs of your application based on user flows and their actions. Click on the “Save” button to save the report.
Save To drop-down has two options
- My Reports
- Shared Reports
My Reports will keep your report private and save under “Shared reports” will allow other users to access the report.
Additionally, you can click on Share Icon, to share a report.
When you share a report, you will get a link to share with others. The user with the access to this Azure resource will be able to view the user map report.
Open the Saved User Flow dialog blade ( Click on the Open icon to bring this blade) to view all reports categorized under My Reports and Shared Reports.
From here you can also rename or delete a report, also can share or un-share report.
Overall, the User Flow feature in Application Insight helps you to understand how users are navigating through the application, where they are spending more time and what action user repeat often. Sharing reports enable multiple user to collaborate across.
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