Knowing how your application is doing is vital to keep your users happy. In Azure, there are many services that can help you with this. In this episode, Azure Barry shows Scott Hanselman how to choose the right Azure service to monitor your application. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:59]– Options for Monitoring Applications in Azure[0:04:04]– Questions to Ask[0:05:13]– Azure Application Insights[0:08:37]– Azure Monitor[0:12:10]– Azure Security Center vs. Azure Sentinel[0:15:30]– Comparing Options for Monitoring in Azure[0:15:54]– Wrap-up Azure Monitor overviewWhat is Application Insights?Azure SentinelMicrosoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (Pluralsight)Create a free account (Azure)

Friends don't let friends right-click deploy. Azure provides many ways to deploy your application. In this episode, Azure Barry shows Scott Hanselman how to choose the right Azure service with which to deploy and test your app. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:23]– Continuous Integration and Delivery[0:05:37]– Options for Deploying and Testing in Azure[0:07:22]– Deploying your app: Questions to Ask[0:08:00]– Azure DevOps Starter[0:11:03]– Wrap-up GitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsVisual Studio App CenterMicrosoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (Pluralsight)Create a free account (Azure)

Yun Jung Choi shows Scott Hanselman how to use AKS Diagnostics and AKS Periscope to troubleshoot issues on your AKS cluster. Use AKS Diagnostics to identify problems and get actionable recommendations on how to resolve AKS cluster issues. Run AKS Periscope in VS Code to easily collect and export node and pod level logs on your AKS cluster. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:48]– AKS Diagnostics and demo[0:09:00]– AKS Periscope and demo[0:13:00]– Discussion and wrap-up Azure Kubernetes Service Diagnostics (preview) overviewAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Extension for Visual Studio Code (Preview)Azure Kubernetes ServiceIntroduction to Azure Kubernetes ServiceCreate a free account (Azure)

Do you want to scale your workloads on Kubernetes without having to worry about the details? Do you want to run Azure Functions anywhere and easily scale it yourself? Tom Kerkhove shows Scott Hanselman how Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) makes application autoscaling dead simple. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:10]– Presentation[0:07:57]– Demo[0:17:45]– Discussion and wrap-up Kubernetes Event-driven AutoscalingKEDA on GitHubAzure Functions on Kubernetes with KEDAAzure Friday - Azure Serverless on Kubernetes with KEDACreate a free account (Azure)

The Azure portal is the single pane of glass where you can create, monitor, manage and operate hundreds of Azure services. In this episode, Leon Welicki shows Scott Hanselman some of the core interactions in the portal that enable you to create, find, and manage instances of any resource type. Learn a few tips and apply them across Azure. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:37]– Azure homepage[0:03:45]– Finding and charting your resources[0:12:45]– Azure Resource Graph Explorer[0:17:08]– Creating resources[0:23:13]– Managing resources[0:26:50]– Azure mobile app connection + wrap-up Azure portalAzure portal (Preview)Azure Portal "How To" SeriesLearn how to manage services with the Azure portalCreate a free account (Azure)

Ilse Terrazas Ortega joins Scott Hanselman to show you how to take advantage of the Azure mobile app to monitor and manage your Azure environment. From Azure alerts to Cloud Shell, this powerful tool will help you take control of your environment right from the convenience of your phone. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:55]– Four tenets of the Azure mobile app[0:02:45]– Demo: Azure mobile app[0:07:30]– Setting up Azure alerts in the Azure portal[0:09:42]– Discussion and wrap-up Azure mobile appAzure mobile app (iOS)Azure mobile app (Android)Choose the best tools for managing and configuring your Azure environmentCreate a free account (Azure)

Thomas Maurer joins Scott Hanselman to show how developers can be more collaborative in developing, deploying, and managing applications across multiple environments and clouds. Build and deploy a truly consistent app experience everywhere in your hybrid cloud using your existing DevOps pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm Charts – as well as your choice of tools. Azure Arc is integrated with GitHub, Azure Monitor, Security Center, Update and more. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:20]– Presentation + Azure Architecture Center[0:05:13]– Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes cluster demo[0:11:37]– Azure Arc enabled data services demo[0:13:53]– Azure Stack portfolio[0:16:06]– Wrap-up Azure Architecture - Hybrid categoryAzure Arc overviewHybrid and multicloud solutionsManage hybrid infrastructure with Azure Arc learning pathCreate a free account (Azure)

When your private virtual networks in Azure need to talk to the Internet, a network translation is needed for your applications to talk to endpoints on the Internet. Christian Kuhtz joins Scott Hanselman to show how it works and why Azure NAT Gateway is the best and most scalable way to do Source Network Address Translation (SNAT). [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:18]– Presentation[0:06:58]– Demo[0:12:59]– Discussion[0:21:02]– Wrap-up What is Virtual Network NAT?Designing virtual networks with NAT gateway resourcesVirtual Network pricing (NAT Gateway)Troubleshoot Azure Virtual Network NAT connectivityAzure Virtual Network NAT metricsCreate a free account (Azure)

Azure App Service hosts millions of apps, serves trillions of requests per day, and has an SLA of 99.95%. But what should you do when your app has issues in production? Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to discuss some operational best practices for running your web apps on Azure App Service. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:49]– Demo setup[0:02:23]– Demo[0:19:24]– Discussion & wrap-up Tutorial: Troubleshoot an App Service app with Azure MonitorAzure App Service deployment slotsAzure App Service monitoringAzure App ServiceAZ-400: Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategyCreate a free account (Azure)

Ye Gu joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Cache for Redis, a popular open-source in-memory data store that uses DRAM to store the most frequently used or time-sensitive data for fast retrieval. With it, you can create applications on Azure that handle millions of requests per second at down to sub-millisecond latency. Now, Azure Cache for Redis is becoming even more powerful through the integration of Redis Enterprise in partnership with Redis Labs. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:46]– Presentation[0:06:34]– Demo[0:15:48]– Discussion & wrap-up Meeting developer needs with powerful new features in Azure Cache for RedisAzure Cache for RedisQuickstart: Create an Enterprise tier cache (preview)How to Improve Your Azure SQL Performance by up to 800%Optimize your web applications by caching read-only data with RedisCreate a free account (Azure)