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Brisbane ALM User Group: Integrating Application Insights in the end to end ALM workflow by Anthony Borton
The warming weather and the Thunder Showers this weekend definitely left me a little homesick for Australia…which compelled me to announce this weeks ALM User Group in Brisbane. Next week is “bring a friend” week at the Brisbane ALM User Group with with every person who brings a friend receiving free soft drinks during the event! View Meeting Details and RSVP to attend Session AbstractMany of our user group meetups have been focused on a specific feature, technology or product. In this month’s meetup I’ve decided to try something a little different.I...
Using the IntelliTrace Events window with a log collected from MMA Standalone
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent allows you to collect reliability performance data and exception data for web applications. You can use IntelliTrace to review this data, or debug this data to get more useful information. In this post I am using MMA Standalone, as opposed to MMA connected to AppInsights or System Center. One of my colleagues deployed FabrikamFiber site to her local IIS and monitored it with MMA standalone. FabrikamFiber was designed to contain bugs and surprises. Let’s see what we can find from the collected log (attached to the blog). Open the FabrikamFiber log file in Visual Studio and you’ll s...
Monitoring Custom Performance Counters in Application Insights
I have had several folks ask me how to monitor custom performance counters in Application Insights. Since I hadn’t played with performance counters in a while I thought I would go through the MSDN documentation on this topic from end to end. Step 1. Create the performance Counter In Visual Studio open Server Explorer, expand the Performance Counters node and right click “Create New Performance Category” Step 2. Create an Application that increments the counter In Windows Forms you can just drag the performance counter to the design surface but it is not much harder in a Web Application. Here is the c...
New agent for Application Insights available
We are excited to announce that there is an updated version of Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) available now. Performance counter collection frequency was reduced from 5 minutes to 1 minute for standard and custom counters so you’ll see trends more granularly and faster. There are also improvements in our log collection feature and bug fixes improving agent stability. This agent version standardizes on a single way to configure Application Insights (both agent and SDKs) driven through Visual Studio using our Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio. The best part is this Application Insights configuration ...
Application Insights Webinar April 17th 8:00am PST
If you are looking to get started with Application Insights I will be hosting a webinar Thursday 8:00am PST where I will be walking through a getting started session looking at Availability Monitoring, Performance Monitoring, Usage Monitoring and how to make all this actionable!Register for event: https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032582723&IO=fI2a9Ruq1VA5J1%2brnNveSA%3d%3dStarts: Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:00 AM Time zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Duration: 1 hour(s) Register
Integrating testing tools and devops at the Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group April 17th
The thought leaders in the area of Testing locally run “Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group”. I have been asked me to come in and show them how Microsoft is integrating Testing tools into the DevOps work flows!Definitely looking forward to it!3rd Thursday, April 17th, 6:30 pm at CompuCom 11900 NE 1st Street, Bellevue, WA Using the Cloud to Load Test and Monitor Your ApplicationsLoad testing is often one of the most difficult testing efforts to set-up—in both time for the deployment and cost for the additional hardware needed. Using cloud-based software, ...
Get Application Performance data during load runs with Visual Studio Online
[ New Update: Now you can collect performance counter of your choice to be monitored during the load run. Read more about it here ] Goal of a load testing activity is to identify and fix performance bottlenecks. Visual Studio Online integrates Load testing with Application Insights to give deep insights into performance and diagnostics data of your application dramatically decreasing the discovery and resolution of any issues discovered later. This article will walk you through configuring Load Testing to take advantage of Application Insights. *Please note that Application Insights is in Preview. Here ar...
Using Coded UI to test XAML-based Windows Phone apps
In order to ship a great quality app to the Store, it is essential that you test it and flush out the bugs. End to end scenario tests when automated can help you ensure that any regressions in the app are caught early. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you can now write automated end-to-end tests for your app using Coded UI Test. In Visual Studio 2013, Coded UI Test support for XAML-based Windows Store apps was enabled and the experience to use Coded UI test for Phone apps is largely the same. This post walks you through the essentials of creating a Coded UI test for your XAML-based Phone app. Getting Sta...
Phone Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 introduced several exciting changes for mobile development. You are now able to use the same programming model that you use to build Windows Store apps for Windows 8.1, to build XAML apps Windows Phone 8.1. In this post, I will remind you of the most important diagnostic capabilities that you will know from Windows Store apps development, that now apply to Windows Store apps on Windows Phone 8.1. You can find many existing Store App resources from the Windows Dev Center. Debugging Features Windows Store apps: Process Lifecycle Management (PLM) Suspend, Resume, and Suspend and Shutd...