application insights: what is the difference between pageViews and requests?

[acehobbs]

under logs, what is the difference between pageViews and requests?  Neither seems to correspond to what cloudflare logs tell us (e.g. cloudflare shows 20,000 hits for a particular URL in a given period, application insights shows 10.  Also, the client IP is always blank, so we cant correlate hack attacks with the IPs they came from.

[#2]

Hello @acehobbs, 

pageViews and requests are similar

  Request - Send information about a request handled by the application.

  PageViews - Send information about the page viewed in the application.

In practice though the challenge is identifying what is sending the information and what settings have been applied. Assuming this is a asp.net web app, have a look at the application insights configuration file.

Take a look to see if any sampling has been applied. A common way to do this is to add a TelemetryProcessor like the following:

<Add Type="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.TelemetryChannel.AdaptiveSamplingTelemetryProcessor, Microsoft.AI.ServerTelemetryChannel">
<MaxTelemetryItemsPerSecond>5</MaxTelemetryItemsPerSecond>
<ExcludedTypes>Event;Exception</ExcludedTypes>
</Add>