Chapter 8

Monitoring and Supporting an ASP.NET MVC 4 Project on Windows Azure

EXERCISES AND EXAMPLES

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • How to monitor and support an ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Site on Windows Azure
  • How to monitor and support an ASP.NET MVC 4 Cloud Service on Windows Azure

Wrox.com Code Downloads for this Chapter

You can find the wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at www.wrox.com/go/azureaspmvcmigration on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples. It is recommended that you download the code and review it so that you have a good understanding of what is about to be discussed.

Now that you’re live in production with an ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Site or Cloud Service, you certainly want to keep it running and responding to the visitors to the site.

A number of problems can happen, each one requiring a different set of logs or information to resolve them. This chapter walks you through monitoring and troubleshooting, with exercises divided between the ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Site and Cloud Service.

MONITORING AND SUPPORTING AN ASP.NET MVC 4 WEB SITE ON WINDOWS AZURE

You have many monitoring capabilities available to you for both websites and Cloud Services on the Windows Azure platform. Features that are very useful for monitoring your website include:

  • The performance and utilization graphs available via the Dashboard view in the Windows Azure management console
  • The real-time streaming of diagnostic tracing into Visual Studio
  • Capabilities you can ...

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