How to track API requests in Azure APIM to Table Storage

When you run a mobile API (like us at libelo ), you quickly reach a point where you want to understand how people are actually using it. Not just error counts or latency histograms, but the real detail: which operations are called, from which platform, with what location data, at what time. We log all requests with Azure Application Insights, but that is mostly for troubleshooting purposes and comes with sampling risks, and a retention window. In our backend, I have added an extra option: write