Generate a direct URL to Application Insights’ End-to-End Transaction page using an Operation Id?

Below is the key point: the portal link to the end-to-end transaction details page uses an event id (not the operation id) and there isn’t a documented or supported URL scheme that lets you generate that link using only a resource id and an operation id.

Explanation

• Event vs. Operation Id:
  Although every operation has an associated operation id, the link generated by the Azure portal (via the "Copy Link" button) encodes an event id. The event id corresponds to a specific telemetry item in the transaction diagnostics view.

• No Direct Mapping:
  There isn’t a documented way to convert or “translate” an operation id into the corresponding event id via URL manipulation. Essentially, while the operation id is used internally for correlating and connecting various telemetry events, the end-to-end transaction details page requires the event id to open in the portal.

• Current Workarounds:
  If linking directly from Grafana is your goal, you have two main options:

  1. Query for the Event Id:
     Use Application Insights’ query capabilities (for example, via Kusto Query Language in Log Analytics) to find the specific event (or root telemetry item) that corresponds to the operation id. Once you have the event id, you can generate the portal URL.
  2. Custom Navigation:
     Alternatively, you might consider creating a custom diagnostic view that accepts an operation id and performs the necessary queries behind the scenes to display related telemetry. However, this would be a custom solution outside of the built-in portal capabilities.

Summary

There is currently no officially supported method to generate a direct link to the end-to-end transaction page using only the resource id and operation id. The portal’s link depends on the event id, and you would need to retrieve that separately (for example, through a query) if you want to build comparable navigation from Grafana.

Let me know if you need more details on how to query for the event id or any other aspect related to Azure Monitor and Application Insights.