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Application Insights Query Portal Issues

For ApplicationInsights in particular the UI is absolutely, horrendously terrible. I'm not a fan of Azure portal in general, but the ApplicationInsights portal in particular has a ton of UI issues that are not just cosmetic but functionally broken.

  • Startup shows a getting started video even on direct links to my query list or a specific query.

  • Can't jump directly to a query - always extra steps.

  • Creation of queries in the UI is confusing as hell
    Edit and Save are conflated in meaning. Save creates a new Snippet? WTF? But Ctrl-S saves? WTF?

  • Default Query Filter?
    When creating a new query and saving no filter options are prominently displayed. When I look at the list of queries, there's a filter for ApplicationInsights that I did not see on a new query. It defaults to that so none of my queries show up until I explicitly remove that filter.

  • Opening a query from Favorites doesn't open a new tab When I click on a query it adds to the existing query, instead of as expected opening a new tab. Steps now are click + then go to favorites to open.

  • Opening a query from Favorites (or anywhere) appends the query?
    When opening a query it appends into the query editor, adding to whatever that was there. It then tries to auto-run and fails. If I re-run it actually works. But looking at the editor there are now two queries visible. Opening first query never works - query is always doubled up with two queries in the editor. Auto-run fails.

  • Menu on App Insight shows Queries and Query Explorer - Choose one or the other but not both.

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