Application Insights uses several contextual properties for event correlation. The most generic one is Operation Id that allows us to analyze a series of events and traces as part of a single operation. Depending on the application type there can be additional correlation properties. »
Besides rich telemetry that is collected by Application Insights modules transparently for your applications you also want to make your custom tracing and logging messages part of the overall correlated diagnostics data so you could have even better insights into what's happening... »
It’s all about correlation and digestion of the captured data. An exception or a database call or a custom event they all happen as part of some sort of an operation. It can be a web request processing or a user performing... »
On July, 22 2015 we've held the first meet-up event of Belarus Azure User Group where we shared experience building solution on Microsoft Azure, using various services and migrating existing solutions to the cloud. It was a special event for me because I was on stage speaking this time. »
Last time we had a look at provisioning Azure Search service with Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell. The next step is to set up an index (or indexes) and decide how we are going to populate it. We should also index existing data for the first time once the index has been created. »
Azure Search Management API is built on top of Azure Resource Manager which is a new way of managing resource in Azure that you probably hear about more and more these days. The idea behind it is that instead of managing individual resources you start thinking in terms of your applications... »
Applications running in the cloud or just making use of various external services are likely to face temporary failures when trying to communicate with these services. These failures could be network connectivity issues or request timeouts when external services are overloaded. »
Azure Search is a search as a service offering that gives developers total control over indexing and searching of their content. It’s the control that sets Azure Search apart from public search offerings such as Google Custom Search. »
Microsoft Azure provides a modern CDN service that will help boost performance of your web applications. The service acts as a globally distributed pass-through cache and you can choose the backing service it will use to fetch original files from. »
Now that we understand some basics of how dependency injection is handled by ASP.NET 5 we are ready to start rolling out our integration components for our container of choice. The process may not that straightforward at times and different containers have their quirks. I believe things will improve when new bits actually go GA and it's likely that containers »