2906, 2015

How to configure a standalone QA / Testing Environment for Azure applications?

By |June 29th, 2015|Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Platforms, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure developers often stumble and find it difficult and cumbersome to test their applications. They consider Azure staging environment equivalent of a test environment, which it is not. Staging area is just a temporary application holding area, ideally an exact replica of production, before it is deployed in the production environment. Staging helps you view […]

2206, 2015

How to effectively monitor Azure Service Bus Queues

By |June 22nd, 2015|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Platforms, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Service Bus (ASB) is a critical component of Microsoft Azure cloud platform.  Using ASB Queues, applications can communicate with each other by sending messages instead of performing direct API calls.  ASB Queues often serve as a core communication framework that glues the overall architecture together.

It is vital that proper monitoring and automation of Azure Service Bus Queues is in […]

906, 2015

How third party Azure Monitoring Software adds value to your Azure hosted Infrastructure?

By |June 9th, 2015|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

With rising demand and maturity of cloud computing, more specifically Azure, the need for holistic cloud infrastructure and services monitoring, automation and management solution has dramatically increased.  For Azure, this has led to the emergence of a number of Azure Automation, Monitoring, and Management tools by third party vendors and open source communities – such as […]

2805, 2015

Top 5 Benefits of Azure Monitoring and Automation Software

By |May 28th, 2015|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Microsoft Azure is a flexible and powerful cloud computing platform that delivers an on demand computing, storage and network resources to host, scale and manage Web applications and services. It is designed to help its users in focusing on their key business goals and objectives- rather than on the supporting IT Infrastructure. While Azure delivers […]

1305, 2015

Monitoring of Azure Virtual Networks using CloudMonix

By |May 13th, 2015|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, General, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Virtual Networks allow cloud applications hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform to connect to internal enterprise networks through secure tunnels.  This enables hybrid-cloud scenarios, allows for utilization of premise resources along-side cloud resources and generally bridges the gap between internal data centers and cloud-based data centers.

Monitoring such connectivity is vital for teams that rely […]

605, 2015

Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines without agents

By |May 6th, 2015|Cloud Automation, Cloud Monitoring, General, IT Management, Microsoft Azure, New Features|0 Comments

Effective immediately, CloudMonix users can now monitor their Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) Windows Virtual Machines without provisioning special agent software.

CloudMonix was recently enhanced to offer a “white-glove” approach to instrumenting Azure Diagnostics extension on Windows VMs.  After stepping thru short Setup Wizard or configuring a new VM via “Add New” button from the dashboard, CloudMonix will do […]

704, 2015

Top SQL Azure metrics to monitor

By |April 7th, 2015|Cloud Monitoring, General|0 Comments

Ensuring that database tier is always available and performing optimally is one of the most important tasks for engineers running apps in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Performance slowdowns or outages in the database tier typically impact overall applications in most fundamental ways. In this blog entry, we’ll highlight the secret sauce behind some of the […]