title: How do you turn off Application Insights Dependency Tracker?
body: <p>I'm trying to dump simple messages to my Application Insight log so I can monitor the health of my web service.  Things like "Service starting...", "Service Started.", etc. as well as exception messages.</p>
  
  <p>But my log is flooded with these Dependency Tracking messages.  Things like the <strong>Put</strong> has been called, an <strong>SQL Query</strong> has been run.  I have no interest in these messages and it makes it damned near impossible to see real issues in that mess.</p>
  
  <p>How do you turn this 'feature' off but still use Application Insight for basic progress message?</p>