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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook

You're reading from   Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook Build and monitor Azure applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615265
Length 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jason Marston Jason Marston
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Praveen Kumar Sreeram Praveen Kumar Sreeram
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Preface 1. Developing Cloud Applications Using Function Triggers and Bindings FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Notifications Using the SendGrid and Twilio Services 3. Seamless Integration of Azure Functions with Azure Services 4. Understanding the Integrated Developer Experience of Visual Studio Tools 5. Exploring Testing Tools for the Validation of Azure Functions 6. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Serverless Services 7. Developing Reliable Serverless Applications Using Durable Functions 8. Bulk Import of Data Using Azure Durable Functions and Cosmos DB 9. Implementing Best Practices for Azure Functions 10. Configuring of Serverless Applications in the Production Environment 11. Implementing and Deploying Continuous Integration Using Azure DevOps 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sending application telemetry details via email

One of the activities of your application, once live, will be to receive a notification email with details about health, errors, response time, and so on, at least once a day.

Azure Functions provides us with the ability to get all these basic details using a function template with code that is responsible for retrieving all the required values from Application Insights, as well as the plumbing code of framing the email body and sending the email using SendGrid. We will look at how to do this in this recipe.

Getting ready

Perform the following prerequisite steps:

  1. Create a new SendGrid account, if you haven't created one already, and get the SendGrid API key.
  2. Create a new...
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