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Learning Microsoft Azure

You're reading from  Learning Microsoft Azure

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782173373
Pages 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Geoff Webber Cross Geoff Webber Cross
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Geoff Webber-Cross Geoff Webber-Cross
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Learning Microsoft Azure
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure 2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure 3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure 4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database 5. Building Azure MVC Websites 6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging 7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration 8. Building Worker Roles 9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration 10. Web API and Client Integration 11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services 12. Preparing an Azure System for Production Index

Site diagnostics


Websites give us a number of site-diagnostic capabilities, which provide us insight into what our website is doing above the application layer (performing REMOTE DEBUGGING falls more into the application layer, but the configuration controls whether a debugger can be attached to a web server, which is a site layer). I think of this category of diagnostics in the same way as IIS logging on an on-premises web server.

Site diagnostics offers us the following diagnostic facilities:

  • WEB SERVER LOGGING: This logs all HTTP transactions for a website, which can be helpful for monitoring transactional throughput of a site and gathering metrics. Logs can be stored to the FILE SYSTEM and are limited to a configurable QUOTA that ranges between 25 MB and 100 MB, or to a blob storage, which allows greater flexibility for storage size but will incur costs.

  • DETAILED ERROR MESSAGES: This logs extra detailed error information for HTTP status codes that are 400 or higher and are returned by...

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