A spruce-fen App Service site can enable Application Insights in the portal, but the team also wants custom spans. How do the two instrumentation paths compare?
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Short Explanation
Portal auto-instrumentation gets you going without code. Need custom spans? Add the OpenTelemetry Distro in the app. AKS previews and Redis are side quests.
Full Explanation
App Service supports codeless Application Insights auto-instrumentation for rapid baseline telemetry. Teams that need custom spans and richer control add the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro in application code. AKS preview auto-instrumentation and Redis metrics are not the App Service Domain 4 answer for this comparison.