If you have ever wondered how to find the outgoing IP address of your Web App, Mobile App, API App or Logic App, look no further. To see how to find the OUTBOUND IP ADDRESSES from the Azure portal, view Video 1 (removed). Video 1, find outgoing, outbound IP addresses from the portal You can […]
Read More →I wrote an article here that discusses how to troubleshoot a WebJob, during the creation of that post I found decided to figure out this technique as well (calling the WebJob API). Originally, I was using the Azure SDK to trigger the WebJob from Visual Studio Server Explorer, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, […]
Read More →I worked on a case where the customer stated that their Web App was pretty small but when looking at the File System Storage metric in the Azure portal, they saw that is consumed almost 30 GB. The way I recommended they check it out is to use the KUDU console. I wrote an article […]
Read More →There are numerous ways to create a memory dump for a slow performing Web App, but I find this one the simplest and quickest. Follow these steps to capture a memory dump of the W3WP process responding to requests which are slower than expected. Here are the steps: Login to your KUDU console. I wrote […]
Read More →The process for mapping a wildcard domain, for example *.contoso.com to a Web App can be achieved by performing the following: Adding a CNAME at your domain hosting provider Adding the custom domain within the Azure portal Adding wildcard domain names to multiple Web Apps Once these steps are complete, accessing your Web App using […]
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I was following these instructions here using CERTREQ to create my certificate request, and everything worked fine up to step 6. In step 6 is states that I should have a CER file. I wrote some articles about creating a certificate here and here, where there is a CER file created, however, when I downloaded […]
Read More →When you scale to more than a single instance of a Web App, it gets a little complicated to monitor or troubleshoot an issue. The complicated part is trying to find which of the instances are experiencing the problem. In many cases, a majority of the requests complete just fine, but from time to time, […]
Read More →If your Web App is not behaving like you expect, you might consider implementing Auto Healing. Auto Healing for a Web App lets you take an action when certain events occurr, for example: When request count breaches a certain limit When requests are running slower that expected When an unexpected http status code is received […]
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One of the surprises I had when I moved many of my sites from a domain hoster to an Azure Web App was that the platform only provided web services and that I had lost my SMTP services. That meant I was not able to send or receive emails from my private domains. I rushed […]
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I setup a Web App to test deployments from GitHub. Once the Web App was created I linked it to GitHub by selecting the “Integrate source control” link on the main page of for the website and selected GitHub. Following the wizard I was able to make the link between the 2. The details are […]
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