Hi everyone, in our last session on Saturday 13 of the workshop “Azure for Devs” for our community .NET Dominicana (@DotNetDo), my friend Angel Garcia and I covered the following topics:

✨ Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.

This information helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.

What is Application Insights?

Application Insights, a feature of Azure Monitor, is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers and DevOps professionals. Use it to monitor your live applications. It will automatically detect performance anomalies and includes powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users actually do with your app.

🦾 Azure Key Vault

Centralizing the storage of application secrets in Azure Key Vault allows you to control their distribution. Key Vault greatly reduces the chances that secrets may be accidentally leaked. When using Key Vault, application developers no longer need to store security information in their applications. Not having to store security information in applications eliminates the need to make this information part of the code. For example, an application may need to connect to a database. Instead of storing the connection string in the app’s code, you can store it securely in Key Vault.

Finally, here goes the presentation:

Homework for participants:

Implement Azure Monitor to your App Service created on Session 1, store keys with Azure Key Vault, and display them in your project.

Complete Microsoft Learn Azure Fundamentals Path.