Monitoring Azure App Service

Overview

Microsoft Azure App Service is a group of serverless resources that enable you to build and host web apps, mobile backends, event-driven functions, and RESTful APIs without managing infrastructure. It can host workloads of all sizes and offers auto-scaling and high availability options.

Datadog provides monitoring capabilities for all Azure App Service resource types:

• Azure Monitor metrics for Apps and Functions using the Azure Integration.
• Use the Azure App Service View to quickly spot issues, map relationships between your Azure App Service resources, and gain insights into cost and performance.
• Submit custom metrics through the API.
• Submit resource logs through Event Hub.

Datadog provides additional monitoring capabilities for the following Azure App Service workload runtimes on Basic, Standard, and Premium plans:

Capabilities:

• Fully distributed APM tracing using automatic instrumentation
• Customized APM service and trace views showing relevant Azure App Service metrics and metadata
• Manual APM instrumentation to customize spans
• Trace_ID injection into application logs
• Custom metrics with DogStatsD

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Azure App ServiceDOCUMENTATION Azure App Service EnvironmentDOCUMENTATION Monitor .NET web apps with the Datadog extension for Azure App ServiceBLOG Azure App Service APM PricingPRICING Deploy ASP.NET Core applications to Azure App ServiceBLOG