You have been asked by your customers to provide analytic reports for a derived metric within Application Insights. So, what is a derived metric? Well, by default, Application Insights provides you with many insights into metrics such as requests, errors, exceptions, and so on.
You can run queries on the information that Application Insights provides using its Analytics query language.
In this context, requests per hour is a derived metric, and if you would like to build a new report within Application Insights, then you will need to feed Application Insights about the new derived metric on a regular basis. Once you start feeding the required data regularly, Application Insights will take care of providing reports for your analysis.
We will be using Azure Functions that feed Application Insights with a derived...