Tag Archives: Azure

Using full Lucene Query Syntax in Azure Search

Posted on September 11, 2020 by

The Azure Cognitive Search is the search engine in Microsoft Azure. You can search using a simple queries (default) which is good at doing full text searches, or you can use full syntax which is a Lucene query syntax. The … Continue reading →

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C# Azure TelemetryClient will leak memory if not implemented as a singleton

Posted on May 7, 2020 by

I noticed that my classic .net web application would leak memory after I implemented metrics for some background tasks. Further investigation showed that my MetricAggregationManager would not release its memory. Since one of the major changes was the implementation of … Continue reading →

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Application Insights not working in .NET Core Console Application – Remember to flush the TelemetryClient

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

My .NET Core console application did not write to my Application Insights instance. Well, it did, but only sometimes. Writing to Application Insights is done asynchronously, usually every 30 seconds or 500 items. This means that you need to give … Continue reading →

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Azure App Configuration – Getting the connection string from appsettings.json

Posted on February 14, 2020 by

Azure App Configuration is a services that provides a central place to manage application settings, and it provides cool features like feature flags and auto refresh of settings when they are changed. To access Azure App Configuration from your .NET … Continue reading →

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Sitecore and Application Insights – How to remove 90% of all log lines without sacrificing traceability

Posted on December 5, 2019 by

In this article I will explain how you can remove up to 90% of all log lines from the Application Insights log, but still keep every log line in the file log. All of this without loosing any important information. … Continue reading →

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Azure Functions CRON expressions

Posted on May 25, 2019 by

When creating Microsoft Azure Functions, you can have a timer that triggers your function. The time for when the function should run is specified in a CRON expression: The CRON format is widely used in UNIX environments, so therefore a … Continue reading →

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Read from Azure Queue with Azure WebJobs 3.0 and .NET Core

Posted on March 29, 2019 by

From WebJobs 2.0 to WebJobs 3.0 Microsoft have completely rewritten the way Azure WebJobs is used. The reasons are probably noble, but they require you to redo your work when upgrading. So I made this template that allows me to … Continue reading →

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Read blob file from Microsoft Azure Storage with .NET Core

Posted on March 28, 2019 by

In order to read a blob file from a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, you need to know the following: The storage account connection string. This is the long string that looks like this: DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https; AccountName=someaccounfname; AccountKey=AVeryLongCrypticalStringThatContainsALotOfChars== The blob storage container … Continue reading →

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Azure ApplicationInsights track custom metrics using the TelemetryClient

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

The Microsoft.ApplicationInsights nuget package is your code gateway to the Microsoft Application Insights portal, and also to the Azure Monitor universe. You use these tools as a shared place for your log data, telemetry, alerts, diagnostics etc. The Application Insights comes … Continue reading →

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Webhook Event Receiver with Azure Functions

Posted on August 4, 2017 by

Microsoft Azure Functions is a solution to run small pieces of code in the cloud. If your code is very small and have only one purpose, an Azure Function could be the cost effective solution. This is an example of … Continue reading →

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