Stop Application Insights from posting to Debug console

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Now I really do quite like the new Application Insights with Visual Studio 2013, and I don't want to remove it. However, it does spam my Debug output quite a lot.

I get rows upon rows of output like

Application Insights Telemetry: {"ver":1,"name":"Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.PerformanceCounter","time":"2015-04-23T11:38:03.1252550+01:00","iKey":"758c18d5-055e-48a8-bbcf-9c3301402b2c","tags":{"ai.internal.sdkVersion":"0.13.2.132","ai.application.ver":"Unknown","ai.device.type":"PC","ai.device.id":"Pat-PC","ai.device.oemName":"Dell Inc.","ai.device.model":"Dell XPS430                  ","ai.device.network":"6","ai.device.language":"en-GB","ai.device.machineName":"Pat-PC","ai.device.os":"Windows NT 6.1.7601.65536"},"data":{"type":"Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.PerformanceCounterData","item":{"categoryName":"Processor","counterName":"% Processor Time","instanceName":"_Total","value":35.9710731506348,"ver":1}}}

This kinda makes it impossible for me to actually use the Debug output for my debug statements. How can I silence Application Insights, or configure Visual Studio to just not show those statements?

Decompiling .NET assemblies makes life easy, it quickly helped me find [this web page](http://apmtips.com/blog/2015/02/02/developer-mode/). Set it to *false*. — Hans Passant, Apr 23 '15 at 13:28
Possible duplicate of [Disable application insights in debug](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32057441/disable-application-insights-in-debug) — Michael Freidgeim, Mar 02 '17 at 11:22

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 23 '16 at 00:55

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To simply turn off these messages, with no other side effects:

TelemetryDebugWriter.IsTracingDisabled = true;

answered Nov 23 '16 at 00:55

Iain

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One side effect is the 'application insights' pane in visual studio won't receive the output – Mark Sowul Nov 23 '16 at 19:44

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '15 at 18:57

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Hans Passant is right. DeveloperMode is what triggers AI to write events in DebugOutput. Note though that it also forces AI to send data immediately. So if we set it to false data will be batched and sent out once a minute.

answered Apr 23 '15 at 18:57

Anastasia Black

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How can we disable the messages but retain the automatic flushing of data? – Mark Sowul Oct 08 '15 at 20:12
@MarkSowul looks like you can turn off just the debug output with `TelemetryDebugWriter.IsTracingDisabled = true`. – Iain Nov 23 '16 at 00:49

Stop Application Insights from posting to Debug console

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