Azure Application Insights Data Plane

Name: Azure Application Insights Data Plane API
Brand: Azure Application Insights Data Plane
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For Agents

Connect the Azure Application Insights Data Plane to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Azure Application Insights Data Plane, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Install Jentic One Beta (Self-Hosted)

Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Azure Application Insights Data Plane API.

Run an Analytics (Kusto) query over an application's telemetry

Retrieve events of a specific type for a given application

Fetch a single event by id within an application

Read pre-aggregated metric data with optional time grain and aggregation

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View OpenAPI Document

Use for: Run an Analytics query for failed requests in the last 24 hours, Retrieve all exception events for application 'contoso-web' in the last hour, Fetch the event with id evt-1234 from application 'contoso-web', Read the requests/duration metric averaged over the last day

Not supported: Does not provision App Insights resources, configure sampling, or write telemetry — use only to read existing events, metrics, and run Analytics queries.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Azure Application Insights Data Plane, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Azure Application Insights Data Plane, keeping it validated and agent-ready. This API exposes the read-only telemetry surface for Application Insights: run Analytics (Kusto) queries against an application's logs, retrieve events filtered by event type, fetch event metadata via OData, and read pre-aggregated metric data with metadata. It is the surface used by dashboards, agents, and analytics pipelines that consume App Insights without hitting the management plane.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Azure Application Insights Data Plane API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Ad-Hoc Telemetry Investigation

On-call engineers triaging an alert run Analytics (Kusto) queries against Application Insights to find the affected requests, their durations, and correlated exceptions. GET /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/query takes a Kusto query string and returns columnar results suitable for piping into a notebook or chat reply.

Run a Kusto query 'requests | where success == false | summarize count() by resultCode' against application 'contoso-web' for the last 24 hours

Event-Type Drilldowns

Analysts often filter by event type (requests, exceptions, dependencies, customEvents) for a focused view. GET /components/{applicationName}/events/{eventType} returns paginated events for the chosen type with OData query support, so dashboards can drill from a high-level metric down to individual events.

List the last 100 exception events for application 'contoso-web' filtered to severityLevel >= 3

Pre-Aggregated Metric Reads

Status-page widgets and runbooks often need a single metric value over a fixed window without running a full Analytics query. GET /components/{applicationName}/metrics/{metricId} returns pre-aggregated metric data with timespan and aggregation parameters, which is faster and cheaper than the query endpoint for steady-state reads.

Read the requests/duration metric for application 'contoso-web' for the last hour with aggregation=avg

Agent-Driven Incident Summaries

An AI agent investigating an alert can run a Kusto query, fetch the matching exception events, and summarise the failure mode for a human. Through Jentic, the agent searches for 'query Application Insights telemetry', loads the query endpoint, and submits the Kusto string. The Azure OAuth token is held in the credential vault, and the agent sees only structured results.

Search Jentic for 'query Application Insights telemetry', load the query endpoint, and execute a Kusto query that returns the top exception messages from the last hour

Key Endpoints

7 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for azure application insights data plane, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/query

Run an Analytics query

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/events/{eventType}

Execute OData query for events of a type

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/events/{eventType}/{eventId}

Get a single event

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/events/$metadata

Get OData metadata

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/metrics/{metricId}

Read a metric

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/metrics/metadata

List metric metadata

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/query

Run an Analytics query

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/events/{eventType}

Execute OData query for events of a type

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/events/{eventType}/{eventId}

Get a single event

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/events/$metadata

Get OData metadata

GET

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/metrics/{metricId}

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 tokens are minted and rotated inside the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Service principal client secrets stay encrypted; agents call Microsoft.Insights/components with a short-lived scoped token only.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'query Application Insights telemetry') and Jentic returns the matching query, events, or metrics operation with its input schema, so the agent does not need to know the long Microsoft.Insights data-plane path layout.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 1-2 days for AAD app registration, token acquisition, Kusto query construction, and pagination. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Azure Application Insights Management Client

Provisions and configures the App Insights component this data-plane API reads from.

Use the management client for component lifecycle and instrumentation key handling; use this data-plane API for queries and metric reads.

Complementary

Azure Monitor Management Client

Configures action groups and alert rules over the metrics surfaced here.

Use Monitor for the alert/action layer; use this data-plane API for the underlying telemetry reads.

Complementary

Azure Advisor Management Client

Surfaces operational recommendations derived in part from App Insights signals.

Use Advisor for derived recommendations; use this data-plane API for the raw telemetry behind them.

Alternative

Google Cloud Monitoring API

GCP equivalent for time-series metrics and log-based queries.

Choose Cloud Monitoring on GCP. Stay with App Insights for Azure-instrumented applications.

FAQs

Specific to using Azure Application Insights Data Plane API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Azure Application Insights Data Plane?

Microsoft Azure does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Azure Application Insights Data Plane via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Application Insights Data Plane use?

The API uses Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens (the azure_auth scheme). Jentic stores the AAD app secret in the MAXsystem vault and exchanges it for a short-lived bearer token at execution time, so agents never see the raw secret.

Can I run Kusto (Analytics) queries against an application?

Yes. GET /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Insights/components/{applicationName}/query accepts a Kusto query string and returns columnar results. Use it for ad-hoc telemetry investigation or scheduled report generation.

How do I retrieve only exception events from an application?

Call GET /components/{applicationName}/events/{eventType} with eventType=exceptions. Add OData $filter and $top parameters to narrow severity, time range, or count, and follow nextLink for pagination.

What are the rate limits for the Application Insights Data Plane?

Limits depend on the App Insights resource pricing tier and the workload's daily ingestion. Heavy Kusto queries are subject to tighter throttling than metric reads. Honour HTTP 429 Retry-After values and prefer the metrics endpoint over the query endpoint for steady-state polling.

How do I run an Application Insights query through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, then search Jentic with 'query Application Insights telemetry'. Jentic returns the query endpoint with its input schema. Load and execute with your subscription, resource group, application name, and Kusto string; the OAuth token is resolved from the vault automatically.