User and Session info not being sent to Azure Application Insights

[vedant1811]

Hello team,

I see all the events (names, properties) in the Azure Application Insights dashboard. But for some reason I only have 1 user, and 1 session (for thousands of events).

I'm not sure if this is a bug in my implementation or in this package.

I have the standard setup for this package:

let reporter: TelemetryReporter
reporter = new TelemetryReporter('<KEY>') 
extContext.subscriptions.push(reporter)
...
reporter.sendTelemetryEvent(name, properties)

Version: 0.9.1

[lramos15]

I don't believe we do anything special here, but can you not use common.vscodemachineid and common.vscodesessionid to correlate your users?

[vedant1811]

Yes, I'm doing that. But it becomes quite cumbersome to use for anything besides looking at events.

Also, application insight features like user flows, funnels don't work.

[vedant1811]

As per the ApplicationInsights-JS setup page, the following functions need to be called:

appInsights.loadAppInsights();
appInsights.trackPageView(); // Manually call trackPageView to establish the current user/session/pageview

Are there any plans of supporting users and sessions?

[lramos15]

I don't think there is any plans to adopt this as there are PII implications to this approach and we try to take a privacy focused approach to things. I recommend using the TelemetryLogger API inside vscode directly for more advanced use cases.

[mcgordonite]

We updated vscode-extension-telemetry from 0.8.5 to 0.9.6 recently. On 0.8.5, events from the library included the user_Id propery, so we could use the Users features of Application Insights. Since the update, events do not include user_Id.

Is this the same issue?

[FiB3]

We updated vscode-extension-telemetry from 0.8.5 to 0.9.6 recently. On 0.8.5, events from the library included the user_Id propery, so we could use the Users features of Application Insights. Since the update, events do not include user_Id.

Is this the same issue?

@mcgordonite, I guess it's the same issue. What would be the reason not to include the user/session info, please?