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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
Book Image

Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Using Application Insights to Monitor Your Applications

Azure is not only about developing an application. Once we have our solution deployed to the cloud, we have to somehow monitor and diagnose it. The Azure Application Insights service offers a complete toolset for maintaining your applications, with SDKs available for multiple languages and platforms, alerts, query language, and integration with many native Azure services. It simplifies logging in to applications and gets rid of multiple sources of truth when it comes to analyzing an issue using data from several places.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Using the Azure Application Insights service
  • Monitoring different platforms
  • Using the Analytics module
  • Automating Azure Application Insights