To me, it is critical to monitor applications and detect failures before receiving a phone call from my clients. With Azure being a closed ecosystem, you will struggle to support your applications without logging in your application that can tell you what is going on. I like to leverage Azure Application Insights and NLog to help with logging in my applications; then, I can build my monitoring from there. Application Insights can be installed with most resources and gives you some insights for free, almost like the event log on a traditional server.
Application Insights provides telemetry about your app, and when things don't get right, it is good to understand that there are two main types of telemetry—raw and ...
