Using Azure Application Insights to monitor a self-hosted WCF service – Part 2

 .net, Application Insights, Azure, Programming, WCF  1 Response »
Dec 082015
 

azureappinsightsIn the first part of this series I wrote about what Azure Application Insights (AI) can do and how to add extra information to the tracking telemetry your application sends to AI.

The solution that I wanted to add AI tracking to was a Windows Service with self-hosted WCF services. One service is the server side of a SOAP service where the caller defined the SOAP WSDL, and the other WCF service is a single method that receives raw XML as a http POST message. To track each request to the WCF service, I decided to use a message inspector.

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Setting up a backup MX using CentOS on Azure

 Azure, Linux  4 Responses »
Jan 242014
 

My company is an Exchange shop – amongst other things, we develop software that integrate with Exchange server for calendar synchronization purposes.

As we “eat our own dog food” – or “drink our own champagne” if you will – we run Exchange server. We are a small shop, so we only have one server, with no redundancy etc.

In case of server downtime, we need a backup MX hosted somewhere other than our datacenter, so incoming mail isn’t lost while the Exchange server is down.

We used to have a VM with a traditional hosting provider, but that setup became too complicated (the “best” way for us to pay them was with Paypal, and there were problems with them not being able to verify our VAT number after we were merged with our parent company).

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