A Tour of Azure Monitor – Mike Wood

Meeting Location: The meeting will be at Smart Data this month.

If an application throws exceptions and no logger is around to hear it, are you really violating your SLA? Sadly, in the rush to move to the cloud sometimes the decisions are mostly about how to get an application to live there, how to migrate existing critical servers, or, let’s face it, what JavaScript framework to use. Only once the change is well underway does someone finally asks the question, “so, why is my app crashing?”, or “what do you mean by logging?” Azure Monitor provides a wealth of services and information about your resources without having to do much more than toggle some switches, even if the developers didn’t think to include logging. Come learn about which switches you can toggle, but more importantly, about how to really leverage the wealth of data the Azure Platform can gather for you.

Bio: Mike is the Lead Cloud Engineer for SentryOne working on cloud based products, services and related technologies. Mike has over 20 years’ experience in the industry and has focused heavily on cloud technologies. He was one of the first Microsoft Azure MVPs recognized in 2010, and has been awarded an MVP each year since. You can follow Mike on Twitter under the handle @mikewo and check out his blog at http://mvwood.com.

Annual sponsors:
Accelebrate - https://www.accelebrate.com/microsoft-net-training
Tyler Technologies - https://www.tylertech.com