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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800206601

Length 458 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Praveen Kumar Sreeram

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

About Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook, Third Edition

1. Accelerating cloud app development using Azure Functions

2. Working with notifications using the SendGrid and Twilio services FREE CHAPTER

3. Seamless integration of Azure Functions with Azure Services

4. Developing Azure Functions using Visual Studio

5. Exploring testing tools for Azure functions

6. Troubleshooting and monitoring Azure Functions

7. Developing reliable serverless applications using durable functions

8. Bulk import of data using Azure Durable Functions and Cosmos DB

9. Configuring security for Azure Functions

10. Implementing best practices for Azure Functions

11. Configuring serverless applications in the production environment

12. Implementing and deploying continuous integration using Azure DevOps

Index

Validating Azure function responsiveness using Application Insights

An application is only useful for a business if it is up and running. Applications might go down for multiple reasons. These reasons include the following:

Any hardware failures, such as a server crash, hard disk errors, or any other hardware issue—even an entire datacenter might go down, although this would be very rare.
Software errors because of bad code or a deployment error.
The site might receive unexpected traffic and the servers may not be capable of handling this traffic.
There might be cases where your application is accessible from one country, but not from others.

It is vital to be notified when your site is not available or not responding to user requests. Azure provides a few tools to help by alerting you if your website is not responding or is down. One of these is Application Insights. Let's learn how to configure Application Insights to ping our Azure function...