Application Insights is an awesome monitoring tool, but it considers all 4xx and 5xx HTTP Status Codes as errors, and when writing REST APIs some of these codes have a special meaning and are not errors. A 404 (Not found) response from a REST API usually means there are no results for a given action, not that you have hit a non-existent page.
So, how do we tell Application Insights to ignore those 404s? Simple: we write what is called a Telemetry processor. Continue reading
Azure Web Apps have a great feature: continuous deployment from different kinds of repositories: Visual Studio Online, OneDrive, a local Git repo, GitHub, Bitbucket, Dropbox or an external repo. You also have built-in alert notifications, but there’s no built-in notifications for deployments, and that’s where Kudu web hooks come to the rescue.
Project Kudu is an open source project hosted in GitHub that is the engine behind Git/Mercurial deployments, WebJobs, and various other features in Azure Web Apps. And, it can also run outside of Azure.
A Web Hook is an HTTP callback: an HTTP POST that occurs when something happens; a simple event-notification via HTTP POST. Web Hooks are a way to receive valuable information when it happens, rather than continually polling for that data and receiving nothing valuable most of the time. Continue reading
Guillermo Bellmann 