I'm using the Application Insights DependencyCollector for collecting information our my service dependencies. I wanted to be able to set the "name" property on these events similar to how I can for incoming request telemetry in order to categorize the calls without the parameters using the relative path uri templates in my source. I've looked over the Activity class mentioned in some other threads, and it looks like I could add it if I wanted, but I saw some additional benefit in overriding the value so that each call wouldn't be unique in other areas of the Azure Portal.

Is this possible today without activities to override the name field?

My core concern is being able to slice and dice the data better, and the name field with the parameter values detailed within in the relative path make it difficult to out of the box.