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WAWS - WebJob to upload FREB files to Azure Storage using the WebJobs SDK
After writing my earlier post on creating a simple WebJob to upload the Failed Request Tracing logs automatically to Windows Azure Blob Storage account, I was discussing this with the awesome development team of the WebJob SDK, Amit Apple, and Mike Stall. And, the outcome is, getting my sample modified to use the awesome WebJobs SDK that eases a lot of tasks. And there is more to it – cool Azure Jobs Dashboard with your Windows Azure Web sites giving you a cool dashboard of your WebJobs messages getting processed. With the WebJobs SDK, there is automatic way of……….
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Windows Azure Websites - WebJob to upload FREB logs to Azure Blob Storage
Currently in Windows Azure Web sites, there is an option to store your website logs to Azure Blob Storage, but however, the FREB logs – failed request tracing logs, can only be stored in the file system. You will then grab them via your favorite FTP tool, and do the analysis. One of my co-worker asked this question on if we can store the Failed Request Tracing logs in the blog storage, and Richard Marr gave this interesting idea of using WebJobs to move the files to Azure Blob Storage. I tried this quickly, and have a beta version of a similar webjob ready for you if you want to try it.
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Do you know swapping between a staging environment, and the production environment is a push of a button, in Windows Azure Websites?
Yes, you are reading it right. It is true. It’s just a matter of one click to promote your staging website to be the production site. Gone are those hassles you were facing with publishing a new deployment to the live website, and some unbaked pages/assemblies, needless to say much pain, downtime, and probability of errors.