In this post, we will look at how to implement Custom Tracing in Monitor and App Insights with Power Fx.
First, let’s create a new Custom Page, and add a button to the page with the label “Run Trace”:
The syntax for the trace function from the Microsoft documentation is:
Let’s add the following Trace statement to the OnSelect of the button. Note the 3rd parameter is an object where we can pass anything we want:
Now let’s add this page to an app and save and publish:
We can now test this. Open Monitor:
Play the app:
And click on the button:
We see the trace come through in Monitor:
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