We’re using AppInsights with our Sitecore10 system, and one frustration we have is that our “Failures” report contains thousands of entries for 404 responses. Unfortunately, these days, just having a site means you’re going to get a tonne of requests for “potentially vulnerable paths” – such as the WordPress login, Drupal Login, PHP Info pages, etc.. None of these paths are ever going to be in our site, and conceptually, is it really an error if we respond to someone who is spamming our site with requests that a particular page doesn’t exist? It’s just making it harder to see the genuine issues we actually care about.

To that end, I wanted to set some of the 4xx responses from our site to be “Successful” in AppInsights. I came up with this TelemetryInitializer…

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We are running Sitecore 10 in containers, and we have multiple environments. We’ve also got multiple server roles. We’d like our telemetry to App Insights to tell us a) what instance is this for, and b) what role is this for.

We can achieve this with a TelemetryInitializer…

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