The single feature I deeply loved from the old Visual Studio Online Application Insights (before it was handed over to the Azure Team) was the Developer Dashboard, a real-time overview of how your application was faring.
There is a replacement though: Live Metrics Stream. It is very powerful, way more than the old Developer Dashboard:
The problem is that if you try to configure it with an out-of-the-box ASP.NET 5 Application you will never manage to make it work:
…even if you have the latest Application Insights SDK package installed.
The reason is because not all the features of Application Insights are supported out-of-the-box with ASP.NET 5 – if you run it against .NET Core 5.0.
If you want to integrate LMS in an ASP.NET 5 application, you need to add this code snippet to your startup.cs file and remove dnxcore50 from your project.json file.
I totally expect a full support for all the Application Insights’ features to come soon, but for now if you really need LMS in your application you need to stick with DNX 4.5.1+ as a runtime.