Application Insights Sampling in Azure Functions and missing invocations

For Azure Functions -

1. Adaptive sampling is enabled by default.
   
2. Fixed-rate sampling is not supported.
   
3. Ingestion sampling only applies when no other sampling is in effect. Therefore, this is also disabled by default in the wake of point #1 above.
   

If you expect data (invocations) under Monitor but do not find it as shown in screenshot below, you have either changed Host.Results category to Warning (or above) level; or your application telemetry is getting sampled. To fix the former, open Host.json file and change the Host.Results category to Information level.

{

"logging": {

"fileLoggingMode": "always",

"logLevel": {

"default": "Information",

"Host.Results": "Information",

"Function": "Error",

"Host.Aggregator": "Trace"

}

}

}

If Host.Results category is already set at Information level, disable telemetry sampling as the next step.

To disable the sampling, set "isEnabled": false in host.json file as shown below -

{

"logging": {

"applicationInsights": {

"samplingSettings": {

"isEnabled": false

}

}

}

}

After disabling sampling, you can confirm it by running a query similar to the following; RetainedPercentage should show 100%.

At this point, the function invocations should start appearing under Monitor on Azure Portal UI.

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