Ever wondered how to check the number of open connections on a App Service Web App or Mobile App? Have you ever received this error while running your App Service? System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: “A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host […]
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Moving an Azure App Service
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 →Most common chatbot questions and how to answer them
If you haven’t heard about #chatbots #chatbot then consider yourself lucky to have found this page because you are about to learn about them. They will soon be everywhere and are actually very helpful for answering a majority of questions. The problem I want to resolve is the baseline, in that there needs to be […]
Read More →Memory metrics for an Azure Web App and App Service Plan
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 →Create a Bot using an Azure App Service Bot Service
I am so excited about Bots (#Bot) that I can barely control myself. My hands are literally shaking as I write this post. I wrote this post a few months ago that discuses how I got started using the Bot Framework (#BotFramework) with LUIS, it was a little complicated but now with the built in […]
Read More →Capture and Analyze Brain Waves using Azure
I wrote this article for the November 2016 MSDN Magazine, it is part one of a two part series. Part two is coming next month, December 2016. Part one of the article covers: The configuration of Emotiv SDK The configuration of the Azure IoT Hub Part two of the article covers the remaining topics: Creating […]
Read More →How (I) connected a console application to a Web API protected by an Azure Active Directory
The code can be downloaded from here or on GitHub. I wrote this post here where I discussed how I configured Azure Active Directory into one of my Azure App Service Web Apps. One of the main differences between that post and what I am trying to do here was realized when I received this […]
Read More →Deploy an App Service using Azure PowerShell to a Deployment Slot
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 →Create a memory dump of your App Service when it consumes too much memory
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 […]
Read More →Capture a Trace for troubleshooting Azure Portal issues
If you ever need to capture trace from within the Azure Portal to troubleshoot an issue, here are the steps required to do that. Login to the portal here. Navigate to the step just prior to where the issue is happening. Press F5 or refresh. Press F12 to start the browser Developer Tools (IE and […]
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