Microsoft Azure Application Insights

Introduction

I recently set out to integrate Application Insights (AI) into my ASP.NET MVC 5 (not core, yet) web application hosted in Microsoft Azure.  I was sorely disappointed by the lack of in-depth documentation provided by Microsoft.  Whats more, most of the articles I found on the topic were outdated by several years.  I was able to piece together enough content online to get up-and-running, but had to dig into the source code to fully understand how to configure AI the way that I wanted it.  I'm going post a few little snippets here that I discovered along the way in the hopes that they help anyone else struggling to configure AI.

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