AZ562049 - Generally Available: Application Insights Auto-instrumentation for Azure Kubernetes Service apps

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Published

May 18, 2026

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • May 2026
    General Availability

Product

Azure Monitor

Tag

Microsoft Build
Open Source

Category

DevOps
Management and governance

Description

Azure Monitor Application Insights auto-instrumentation for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) apps is now generally available, making it easier to monitor your applications without modifying source code. With just a few configuration steps, you can automatically instrument Java and Node.js workloads running on AKS and start collecting telemetry with Application Insights.

This capability helps teams quickly unlock Application Insights experiences such as application maps, end-to-end transaction diagnostics, distributed tracing, and log analysis without the time and effort of manual code changes. By using auto-instrumentation with the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro, you can accelerate troubleshooting, improve visibility into application health, and simplify observability for cloud-native workloads on AKS.

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