Roadmap for replacing or reviving https://github.com/Microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Ruby

[alecvn]

Is https://github.com/Microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Ruby now completely dead?

I'm running a Ruby on Rails application on a Azure App Service for Linux (Container) instance and would like to know how I can integrate into ApplicationInsights now or the near future.

[mattmccleary]

Hi Alecvn, yes it's "dead". To be more specific, it's not supported and use-at-your-own-risk. We don't recommend it. Note that Ruby is not an officially supported language for Application Insights.

The plan is for customers to be able to integrate unsupported languages into Application Insights using the OpenTelemetry libraries. The Ruby OpenTelemetry Special Interest Group (SIG) is announcing stable for Distributed Tracing this week on the OpenTelemetry blog.

Customers are successfully using the unsupported OpenTelemetry-Collector and unsupported Azure Monitor Collector Exporter to configure the OpenTelemetry data to be sent to Application Insights.

In the future, we'll provide a supported OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint/agent. A timeline is not available at the moment. Read this blog to learn more. In the meantime, I think all the pieces are available to unblock yourself using unsupported OpenTelemetry components.

[gschmidt-nuance]

Just curious if any recent progress has been made on providing a supported OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint/agent or perhaps more detailed documentation for setting up a Rails app to send OpenTelemetry data to Application Insights? Thanks