In case you missed it, LeanSentry How-To last week was about removing slow or unhealthy Azure instances from your cloud service. It’s a relatively new technique made possible by a new Azure API, that lets you remove a specific instance of your choosing. Direct link: LeanSentry How-To: Remove unhealthy or slow Azure instances Reasons to … [Read more…]
Is your Azure web role throwing 503 Service Unavailable? It could be because of a poor default Pagefile size.
If you are developing code with Azure tables, and building against .NET 3.5 DLLs, you may encounter a compilation error like this: “The name ‘IgnoreResourceNotFoundException’ does not exist in the current context” At LeanSentry, we do a lot of custom Azure development to power our scalable data backend. Now, most of our codebase is using … [Read more…]
We recently went through upgrading www.leansentry.com to the Windows Azure SDK version 1.7, and definitely hit a fair share of problems with building and publishing afterwards. It was a somewhat painful process taking me deep into the night, and I figured I’ll share some of the things I learned along the way to make it … [Read more…]
At LeanSentry, we use Windows Azure heavily to scale out our extensive data collection and diagnostic data processing. Just like anyone else, we have our fair share of difficulties with deploying and configuring our web roles, esp. when it comes to more advanced configuration. As a result, we often rely on startup tasks to … [Read more…]
We all know that getting visibility into Azure apps can be painful! Over at LeanSentry, our big goal is to make troubleshooting Azure apps just as easy as we make it for standard hosting environments. To make this easy, we just released the Azure Nuget package for LeanSentry. With this, it literally takes 2 seconds … [Read more…]