The Why and How of Application Performance Management in Azure

In this talk, we'll hear why application performance monitoring (APM) is fundamentally important for cloud computing and how APM can be implemented in Azure. We'll survey a variety of performance monitoring features that are native to Azure as well as 3rd party vendors that offer APM solutions in the Azure marketplace such as Riverbed AppInternals, New Relic, and Microsoft AppInsights. We'll also hear how performance monitoring strategies are different depending on whether you're monitoring IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS assets, and we'll see specific examples that demonstrate APM techniques for Azure virtual machines, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Web Sites, and Sharepoint Online.

Ian Downard is a cloud solutions architect for Riverbed Technology. For the past 10 years he has focused on performance engineering for networks and enterprise applications. Currently, he's trying to learn everything there is to know about Azure. Ian holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri. His participation with social media is primarily on Twitter @iandownard (https://twitter.com/iandownard) and he is a frequent contributor on the Riverbed blog (http://www.riverbed.com/blogs/authors/ian-downard.html).