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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram
Book Image

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram

Overview of this book

This third edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook guides you through the development of a basic back-end web API that performs simple operations, helping you understand how to persist data in Azure Storage services. You'll cover the integration of Azure Functions with other cloud services, such as notifications (SendGrid and Twilio), Cognitive Services (computer vision), and Logic Apps, to build simple workflow-based applications. With the help of this book, you'll be able to leverage Visual Studio tools to develop, build, test, and deploy Azure functions quickly. It also covers a variety of tools and methods for testing the functionality of Azure functions locally in the developer's workstation and in the cloud environment. Once you're familiar with the core features, you'll explore advanced concepts such as durable functions, starting with a "hello world" example, and learn about the scalable bulk upload use case, which uses durable function patterns, function chaining, and fan-out/fan-in. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge and practical experience needed to be able to create and deploy Azure applications on serverless architectures efficiently.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Integrating Azure Functions with Application Insights

Application Insights is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that assists with tracking performance, exception monitoring, and also collecting telemetry data of the applications. In order to leverage the features of Application Insights, we need to integrate Azure Functions with Application Insights. Once Application Insights is integrated into the application, it will start sending telemetry data to our Application Insights account, which is hosted on the cloud. This recipe will focus on integrating Azure Functions with Application Insights.

Getting ready

We created an Application Insights account in the Validating Azure function responsiveness using Application Insights recipe of Chapter 5, Exploring testing tools for Azure functions. Use an existing account or create an account using the following steps. If an Application Insights account was created in the previous recipe, ignore this step:

  1. Navigate to...