AZ-204 - Developer associate - Monitor, Troubleshoot and Monitor

Last updated Jul 1, 2022 Published Jun 20, 2022

Application insights

  • Concepts
    • Application performance
    • Monitor applications
    • Diagnose issues
  • Install a instrumentation package
  • Monitored aspects
    • Request rate
    • Exceptions
    • Page views
    • User sessions count
    • Performance of underlying machine
    • Custom metrics written in the code
  • Installation
    • Visual studio
      • creates a web mvc application
      • From Project click on “Add Application Insights Telemetry”
      • It can be install locally or use azure
  • Creating app insights
    • telemetry is stored in a log workspace
    • in dot net app, it stores the instrumentation key under Secrets.json file
    • Insights allows dependency tracking from sql server

Tracking users

  • by default insights adds a random id from the user that, to corelate that with a actual user from an app, a custom metrics is needed. In c# (dotnet core) it is done extending the class TelemetryInitializeBase

Tracking page views

  • can be done via javascript embedded in the html page

Application map

  • Draws a diagram based on the requests tracked by insights

Insights funnel

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/usage-funnels

User flows

Availability

  • URL ping
  • Multi step test

Web site scale

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/web-sites-scale

Web logic apps

Web logic app is an azure service that allows developers to integrate different services in the cloud. Some of the examples shared in the official documentation are:

  • React to an event that happened in office 365
  • Move uploaded files from an SFTP or FTP server to Azure Storage.
  • Monitor tweets

Caching

Cache-Aside

Load data on demand into a cache from a data store. This can improve performance and also helps to maintain consistency between data held in the cache and data in the underlying data store.

CDN

The caching behaviors that are offered by azure are something to keep in mind while preparing for the exam.

  • Bypass cache
  • Override
  • Set if missing

CDN settings

  • Ignore query string
  • Bypass caching for query string
  • Cache every unique URL

Azure cache for redis

  • Managed redis

Front door

Azure front door is a CDN service that provides the deliver of large file sizes without cap on file size.

Front door supports different mime types as well as compression. The full list is available under Microsoft’s official front door documentation.

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