As we have previously discussed and set up, application telemetry within Xamarin applications is collected with the App Center SDK. This application data, while providing crucial information about the usage patterns of the application, cannot be further analyzed in App Center. We first need to export the App Center standard as well as the custom telemetry to an Azure Application Insights resource so that further analysis can be executed with a query language.
By using the App Center SDK, telemetry information can be collected along with events, which can contain additional information about a specific user action or application execution pattern. These additional data points, also known as dimensions, are generally used to give the user a quick snapshot of the data that is used to execute the function that triggered the telemetry event. In simple terms, a telemetry event can be described as the event name and the additional...