Q20 Monitor Domain 4 · 20–25% of exam

What does Application Insights Profiler do?

  1. A Profiles Kusto query execution plans
  2. B Captures CPU flame graphs of live application code execution, identifying performance hotspots (correct answer)
  3. C Monitors database query performance
  4. D Provides security vulnerability scanning

Shortcut: Application Insights Profiler (Diagnostic Profiler) periodically captures CPU sampling traces of live code execution. The output is a flame graph showing which code paths consume the most CPU time.