I like keeping my things in order, so over time as my Azure consumption grows, I begin to recognize and learn that maybe I should have put all the related resources into the same resource group. Here is an example of how I moved an App Service Web app from one resource group to another. […]
Read More →Did you ever wonder why memory utilization for a Web App is different than the memory utilization of the App Service Plan, as shown in Figure 1? The App Service Plan in thei example is a SMALL BASIC mode machine. Average memory is 50.68MB which is about ~2.8% of the 1.75GB available for a SMALL […]
Read More →I wrote an article here that explains how to install Azure PowerShell and to check what version it is. A trend that I am seeing is the we tend to create the capabilities to make modifications to an Azure feature and exposed the interface. Then we create a PowerShell cmdlet and then later it gets […]
Read More →I have written a number of troubleshooting labs here, one of which is Lab 21: WinDbg – Memory Consumption. In this article I will identify how to capture a memory dump of a process that is consuming too much memory. In this case it is running on an Azure App Service Web App. NOTE: This […]
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I created a sample ASP.NET application that you can download from here that contains a slow running request, a handled and an unhandled exception. UPDATE: I wrote an article here about remote debugging in Visual Studio 2017 and ASP.NET Core here, titled “Remote debug your Azure App Service 2017 including ASP.NET Core”, JIC you are […]
Read More →I have mentioned how to download the eventlog.xml file to view the events which are happening on your Azure App Service (Web App, Mobile App, API App, Logic App) here and here. You can also look at the event logs in a event viewer using KUDU, I discussed KUDU here. Keep in mind that if […]
Read More →There is a really cool new Azure App Service Web App tool called appLens that is explained in more detail here. Open it by selecting the Settings –> AppLens from the App Service you are interested in analyzing, similar to that shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, AppLens shows this is an application issue not […]
Read More →ARR Affinity is enabled on your Azure App Service by default. This means that if you are running multiple instance of your App Service, clients will be directed to the same instance for each request. Here is an article that contains more information on the subject. However, now it is possible to perform the enable […]
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I wrote this article that discussed how to monitor the different instances of an Azure App Service. As you know, when you access the KUDU console, as I discussed here, you are accessing only 1 of the multiple instances, which may or may not be having a problem. So, if you take a memory dump […]
Read More →I not only support App Service Azure Web Apps, I am a customer of them too. This is something we refer to as ‘eating our own Dogfood’ here at Microsoft. Using the services which you support is certainly a benefit when working together with a customer as it makes it easier to understand their perspective. […]
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