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I am suspecting some menu items of my desktop software are not used, and would use Application Insights for that.

Bad idea: Creating event with Key:"menu" and property "copy" or other item is easy to create and plot in Azure portal and but creates too much noise but also duplicates.

Better idea is to build a list of items that are used throughout the session and at the program closing submit everything once as a list of items that are used.

//for each menu use
Telem.IncrementKey(menuItemText); 

internal static void IncrementKey(string key)
{
    menuDict.TryGetValue(key, out count);
    count++; 
    menuDict.AddOrUpdate(key, count, (k, v) => count);
}

//on closing program
foreach (var entry in menuDict)
{
    menuDictToSend.TryAdd(entry.Key, entry.value);
}
Telemetry.TrackEvent("MenuInteractionsUsed", menuDictToSend);

Another way would be to create key "menu" and comma separate all used menu interactions, but how do I plot those in Azure Portal to figure out the usage?

Is there a better way to submit the data that would be possible to analyze? It is not important how many times single user clicked the item, just which have been used.

Daniel
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  • There are many ways. You can submit a comma separated values. Kusto is powerful language to parse it back. This might not be way smaller than your approach with custom properties. The latter (your approach) allows easier time authoring queries. – ZakiMa Jan 10 '23 at 05:44

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