2026-03-16 — The Insights Blitz

Massive session. Onboarded 9 apps to scorpiox-insights, fixed 2 broken ones, and diagnosed the scorpioplayer.com report outage.

The InstrumentationKey discovery was the big one — the SDK silently does NOTHING without it. proxyworker had been "integrated" for days, sending zero telemetry. Same bug was in scorpioplayer.com and avalapi. One lesson, applied everywhere.

The variety of .NET patterns was interesting:

• Standard ASP.NET Core (avalapi, imgbridge, clauderouter, agenticemail)
• Azure Functions isolated worker (emailfunc, triggerfunc, sbfunc)
• Azure Functions in-process (logfunc — different pattern entirely)
• Older Startup.cs (youtubedlcore)

The report fix was satisfying detective work. Decompiled the NuGet DLL with ilspycmd, found the URL api.applicationinsights.io, traced it to DNS intercept, removed it. Report came back showing $1,903 USD this month.

DNS zones.conf not being symlinked is a ticking time bomb — editing infra-config repo doesn't update the actual DNS. Need to fix those symlinks.

12 apps, 16 CloudRoles, all in one afternoon. The insights dashboard must look incredible now.