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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468659
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Leonardo Greg Leonardo
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Azure 2. Moving Existing Apps to Azure FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Solutions in Azure 4. Understanding the Infrastructure behind Solutions Built in Azure 5. Developing Solutions the Right Way in Azure 6. Deploying Solutions to Azure 7. Putting It All Together 8. Best Practices to Make Your Life Easier in Azure 9. Assessments 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Application Insights


To me, it is critical to monitor applications and detect failures before receiving a phone call from my clients. With Azure being a closed ecosystem, you will struggle to support your applications without logging in your application that can tell you what is going on.  I like to leverage Azure Application Insights and NLog to help with logging in my applications; then, I can build my monitoring from there. Application Insights can be installed with most resources and gives you some insights for free, almost like the event log on a traditional server.

Application Insights provides telemetry about your app, and when things don't get right, it is good to understand that there are two main types of telemetry—raw and aggregated instances. Aggregated data includes the counts of events per unit of time or averages.  Now, it is good to understand the following categories of collected data:

  • Dependencies
  • App Requests
  • Exceptions
  • Page Views
  • Performance counters
  • Log Traces
  • Custom Events...
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