Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Availability Tests with Azure Application Insights

Azure Application Insights provide a great way to log the application events and query them without much of a hazel. Availability test is an option that lets you either ping a server and test or run Multi-step tests.

These can be run in intervals of 5, 10 or 15 minutes and also can be set to ping them within different regions.


Apart from those settings, it also allows setting timeouts. If a time out happens, then it can be configured to retry up to 3 times with 20 second intervals. An item will be considered as a failure only if it fails the retry attempts.
Full documentation on App availability can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/azure-monitor/app/monitor-web-app-availability

This is totally free for unlimited attempts. But if you try the multi-step web tests, it will cost 10 USD per test per month, running unlimited instances. So, why do not you try it away? 

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