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Monitoring your Microsoft Azure Cloud Service for Availability

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Is your head in the clouds? It should be, especially when planning the future of your IT infrastructure. Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud, which provides a number of services to help phase out your aging servers and applications. If you are looking for a certified Microsoft solution partner to help you with your Azure road map, then make sure you pick the one that keeps in sync with all of the latest technologies.

We've developed several cloud services for our clients, ranging from corporate websites to WebService integrations. As a developer, I love to utilize the Microsoft Azure platform to host these services so I don’t have to worry about all of the challenges of managing the underlying infrastructure. I can quickly allocate a new Azure cloud service, and have my app uploaded and live on the internet within minutes. Server redundancy and resource scaling are only a few mouse clicks away.

I was recently asked is there is a way to proactively monitor the availability of these cloud services, and receive an email alert if they are unresponsive. All of the cloud services we've built are business critical, and we want to quickly address any issues and minimize downtime. Here's how it's done…

Log in to the portal by clicking https://manage.windowsazure.com 

Browse to your Cloud Service, and click on Configure Web Endpoint Monitoring

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Add your Endpoint, pick up to 2 test locations, then click the Save button.

In this example, I am testing from Miami, FL and San Jose, CA.

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When you click on Monitoring, you can now see the response times from each test location.

Are you ready for the alerts? Click on Add Rule.

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Enter your threshold and save.

In this example, I want an alert sent to support@beringer.net if the average response time takes longer than 10 seconds.

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My alert rule is completed. I can edit it simply by clicking on its link.

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What else can you do with Microsoft Azure? The cloud is the limit 🙂

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Rob is the CTO of Beringer Technology Group, and focuses his efforts on software development, cloud engineering, team mentoring and strategic technical direction. Rob has worked with Beringer since 2005, and has influenced every department from Development, Security, Implementation, Support and Sales. Rob graduated with his MBA from Rowan University in 2012, earned his Bachelors of Computer Science in 1997, and is current with several Microsoft technical certifications. Rob is very active, and loves to mountain bike, weight train, cook and hike with his dog pack.