In one of our recent projects we had alerts set up for CPU and memory spikes. The CPU alert was set at 10% and 50%. While we got the 10% alert periodically when the app was in active usage , we also got a few 50% alerts once in a while which would get resolved […]
Tag Archives: Azure
How we almost killed our Azure Deployment by diagnosing it!
We recently learnt a lot of new lessons in Azure Websites deployments and diagnostics and will plan to write a set of blogs to hopefully help some fellow programmers but this one lesson is most important to remember before you even start diagnosing! Recently while checking the health of one of our production deployments we […]
Error while hosting Node+socket.io chat room on Azure
One of our recent projects involve a scalable mult-chatroom service. Deciding to go the route of Node+socket.io for scalable and performance oriented service we started with the official socket.io tutorial at (http://socket.io/get-started/chat/). That worked wonderfully . As the next step we went ahead and hosted it on Azure! Here is what the socket told us! […]
Using git to host MEAN stack on Azure!
Recently we were working on a project for creating a website using MEAN (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js) stack and we were stuck with the process of hosting it on azure. After a bit of exploring we finally came across some options through which we can host our website on Azure:- Windows PowerShell, WebMatrix […]
Configuring MongoDB on Azure VM
This is our final post on the Azure VM series! Here we learn how to configure MongoDB on an Azure VM Ø Installing and Configuring MongoDB on Windows Azure Virtual machine 1. Taking into consideration that the steps are followed based on the earlier tutorial of creating a Windows Azure Virtual Machines and logging in […]
Using InsertOrReplace/InsertOrMerge with the Storage Client!
Trying out the new Replace or Insert option(Upsert) in the Storage Client and can’t get rid of the following error message “"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>rn<error xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata">rn <code>InvalidHeaderValue</code>rn <message xml:lang="en-US">The value for one of the HTTP headers is not in the correct format.</message>rn</error>"” The main issue is that the new API is available only in the […]
When Azure Diagnostics just won’t collect your data!!!
Recently realized that while we had happily implemented tracing and diagnostics in our applications , tools like Cerebrata , Azure MMC etc were just not showing any trace data.. We were doing everything by the book and even re-opened the training kit but the trace just won’t get collected. After A LOT of investigation and […]
Azure Table Storage Tip!
For all those working with Azure Table Storage and using the DateTime DataType, here is a quick tip!! Ensure that you set the DateTime datatype with a valid value…while the dev fabric will allow you to get away without setting the value, the Azure prod fabric will not accept a junk value in the DateTime […]
Azure Tip:- WCF WebRole Accessing Table Storage:- SetPublisherAccess error
If you are using a WCF Web Role to access table storage you might come across the following error SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfigurationSetting can be used The following steps can help you 1. Ensure you have the Cloud project set up as the start up project 2. Ensure you are using the […]
Bulb Flash:- Azure Development Quick Tip!!
Recently we were stumped with the following error while working on an Azure project Error 1 The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. C:Program FilesMSBuildMicrosoftCloud Service1.0Visual Studio 10.0Microsoft.CloudService.targets 202 5 OrderManagement […]