How to programmatically generate a link to open an App Insights KQL query?

In the App Insights UI, I can generate a link to a query by clicking on Copy -> Copy Link to Query. Is there some way to generate such a URL programmatically, If I know the query text and the A...

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hspinto
Nov 24, 2019
joruales Maybe a bit late, but as you probably noticed, a URL generated from "Copy Link to Query" has the following format:

https://portal.azure.com/#@TENANT_ID/blade/Microsoft_Azure_Monitoring_Logs/LogsBlade/resourceId/%2Fsubscriptions%2FSUBSCRIPTION_ID%2FresourceGroups%2FRESOURCEGROUP%2Fproviders%2Fmicrosoft.insights%2Fcomponents%2FAPPINSIGHTSINSTANCENAME/source/LogsBlade.AnalyticsShareLinkToQuery/q/ENCODEDSTRING/timespan/TIMESPAN

The ENCODEDSTRING is your query zipped and URL encoded/escaped. You must use this approach when the query has more than 1600 characters. Otherwise, if your query has less than 1600 characters, you can replace the q parameter by a query parameter and the encoded string will simply be your query URL escaped. For instance:

https://portal.azure.com/#@TENANT_ID/blade/Microsoft_Azure_Monitoring_Logs/LogsBlade/resourceId/%2Fsubscriptions%2FSUBSCRIPTION_ID%2FresourceGroups%2FRESOURCEGROUP%2Fproviders%2Fmicrosoft.insights%2Fcomponents%2FAPPINSIGHTSINSTANCENAME/source/LogsBlade.AnalyticsShareLinkToQuery/query/availabilityResults%20%7C%20where%20duration%20%3E%20500%20%7C%20take%201/timespan/TIMESPAN

would open your App Insights instance with the following query:

availabilityResults

| where duration > 500

| take 1

hspinto

Microsoft

Nov 24, 2019

joruales Maybe a bit late, but as you probably noticed, a URL generated from "Copy Link to Query" has the following format:

https://portal.azure.com/#@TENANT_ID/blade/Microsoft_Azure_Monitoring_Logs/LogsBlade/resourceId/%2Fsubscriptions%2FSUBSCRIPTION_ID%2FresourceGroups%2FRESOURCEGROUP%2Fproviders%2Fmicrosoft.insights%2Fcomponents%2FAPPINSIGHTSINSTANCENAME/source/LogsBlade.AnalyticsShareLinkToQuery/q/ENCODEDSTRING/timespan/TIMESPAN

The ENCODEDSTRING is your query zipped and URL encoded/escaped. You must use this approach when the query has more than 1600 characters. Otherwise, if your query has less than 1600 characters, you can replace the q parameter by a query parameter and the encoded string will simply be your query URL escaped. For instance: