How to disable Azure Application Insights server request grouping?

Question

A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that for certain operations, the ids and values are not shown any more, and are simply grouped with [id]. This was changed by Microsoft, we did not configure this.

To be clear, this is the data shown in the table when going to Performance in Application Insights.

What Application Insights now shows is the following

GET Something/Get [id]
PUT Something/Update [itemId]

While it used to show it like this

GET Something/Get value1
GET Something/Get value2
PUT Something/Update 60b12ca4-b3e9-4deb-bc5a-004006b2e756
PUT Something/Update 174ad712-aa7c-4e3a-8f68-05d8ec4d989a

Is there a way to disable this grouping and be able to see the actual values again?

Answer 1

Is there a way to disable this grouping and be able to see the actual values again?

No, we can't disable the grouping in application Insights. As per the recent MS-Doc the Request Telemetry is collected the data with respective to the ID and URL of the execution parameter. You can group it to either name or source of the request. Instead, we can group accordingly.

Success and failure request execution can be grouped with resultCode.

You can use request.Context.Properties["<Your custom group>"] before adding the telemetry to Application Insights.

Make sure you have to check your code if you modified any code.

# use Request Telemetry to add the properties
telemetry.Context.Properties.Add("<Your grouped Name>", "<Your telemetry information>");