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Introduzione a Visual Studio Online Application Insights

Matteo Emilihttp://mattvsts.blogspot.com

matteo.emili@live.comhttp://twitter.com/MattVSTS

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Visual Studio ALM MVPSince 2010

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Team Foundation Server

Professional Scrum Master I Systems Engineering Advisor

Dell Software UK

Who am I?

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Source Repos

Test Case Management

Feedback Management

Build and Continuous Integration

Agile Planning

Team Rooms

Team Foundation Server Visual Studio Online

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• Lightweight monitoring technology• It can be used standalone or

combined with other techs (SCOM)• It provides several degrees of

information, depending on the context• Health• Availability• Usage

What is Application Insights?

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DEMO

Application Insight walkthrough

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• The new MMA combines the SCOM agent and the standalone IntelliTrace collector• Useable for web apps, services

• We can target the same application with both SCOM and AI

• Real-time collection, deferred composition• Usually 5-15m delay

Microsoft Monitoring Agent

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• The MMA sends out informations on the application’s health

• It is the cornerstone of all the monitoring dashboard

• It provides loads of actionable information, like the IntelliTrace files

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• There are several choices of techniques, but the most prominent separation is between an obtrusive one and an unobtrusive one

• The obtrusive one implies you must inject some custom code into your application

• The unobtrusive one is a monitoring technique based on using existing tools to create a consistent data model from the monitored application

Techniques

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• The MMA provides unobtrusive monitoring for on-premise applications

• Javascript code can be integrated into applications running on Windows Azure

• SDKs available on NuGet for all the others applications• Services• Windows Phone

The right tool for the right job…

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• The MMA is not the only unobtrusive technology

• Synthetic Monitors are the unobtrusive way of getting information about the application’s availability

Unobtrusive technologies

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• The core solution for monitoring is based on SMs

• They are built on the same technology of the Visual Studio Web Tests, thus allowing you to simulate a real workflow

• I can use a OOB SM if it is simple enough, or build my own one via Visual Studio

Synthetic Monitors

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DEMO

Use Synthetic Monitors to test a specific site pattern

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• Modifying a website is an obtrusive operation…

• Several helpers are available, depending on the platform• Code snippets• NuGet packages

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Health

Availability

Diagnostics

Usage

Unobtrusive vs Obtrusive

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Obtrusive changes

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• Can I install MMA on servers running locales different than EN-US?• Yes, but there are some known issues to

be fixed

• Support for Azure Web Sites or Azure Worker Roles?• Not at the moment.

• Support for Java?• Yes - Tomcat 6, Tomcat 7, or JBoss 6

FAQs

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• Lightweight monitoring solution in VSO• Currently in preview

• Agent can be used on-premise• Different levels of monitoring• Integrated with the Application

Lifecycle• DevOps prone

Recap

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