Dynamic Web Test Creation

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• 07/06/2022
• 3 contributors

This template will help you quickly spin up any number of Application Insights web tests and setup email alerts. The parameters file takes any number of test descriptor objects. These objects look like the following:

{
    "name": "test1",
    "url": "http://www.microsoft.com",
    "expected": 200,
    "frequency_secs": 300,
    "timeout_secs": 30,
    "failedLocationCount": 1,
    "description": "a description for test1",
    "guid": "cc1c4b95-0a39-48ce-9c7b-fa41f0fc0bee",
    "locations": [{
        "Id": "us-il-ch1-azr"
	 }]
}

The guid field is an arbitrary guid for the test. The locations field is a collection of locations to perform the test from. Here is a table of the valid locations, and their corresponding Id code. Due to historical reasons, the Id code sometimes does not match the actual location where the webtest is occurring.

You can create any number of these test descriptors and pass them in as the parameter for tests as shown in the parameters file.

Tags: Microsoft.Insights/webtests, microsoft.insights/actionGroups, Microsoft.Insights/metricAlerts, microsoft.insights/components