11 - 13 MAY 2026 Antwerp Belgium

Stop flying blind. Monitor your applications with Azure Application Insights.

Room 4Tue 12 May • 17:15–18:15Cloud & DevOpsIntermediate
In this session, Sam will uncover the secrets of Azure Application Insights and show you can make your distributed apps observable. You’ll learn how to tap into real-time metrics, understand user's behaviour, and detect issues before they become business problems. Instead of guessing what’s going on under the hood, you’ll see how to use Azure Application insights to make your application really observable. In this demo-rich session, Sam will discuss ways to visualize performance trends, analyse user flows, show application dependencies and feed these learnings back into your development process. Whether you’re an architect, a developer, or a product owner, this session will help you keep your applications stable, responsive, and ready to grow.

About the speaker

Sam Vanhoutte

Sam is a Microsoft Azure MVP. As a technical advisor and investor at several cloud start-ups, he is involved in cloud-native architectures and focuses on Serverless technologies, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence. While he is currently as co-founder on a mission at libelo to make people rediscover nature again, he has been working as CTO at Codit, one of the leading European Microsoft cloud partners. In working together with Microsoft, Sam has extensive experience in building data-driven, integrated cloud-based solutions. Sam has been involved in many enterprise cloud projects but now really likes to combine entrepreneurship and technology. He is a frequent speaker at international events and is active in the Belgian and European Microsoft communities.