It's possible to build, deploy and manage applications across global networks stress-free, provided that you have assurance that your cloud platform is performing optimally. Achieving that assurance is easier and more cost effective than you would expect with Foglight for Windows Azure Applications.

This quick-to-deploy diagnostic and monitoring solution helps assure the performance and availability of applications built on the Windows Azure platform. Foglight for Windows Azure Applications ensures you have real time data on the health of the application to tie back to the end-user experience.

• Quality of service - Gain a deeper understanding of the application’s performance quality, especially when the application is performing less optimally than intended.
• Synthetic availability testing - Ensure your application is available 24x7.
• Real user monitoring - Determine how many visitors your application gets, where the users come from, and what browsers/devices they use, so you can tailor and improve appeal accordingly.
• Transaction analysis - Track which transactions take longest, which are the most common, which consume the most time overall, and which have the greatest negative impact on users. Use this feature to pinpoint what you can improve upon to make the user experience better.
• Application and infrastructure health - Identify problems with the Azure infrastructure or the application, and receive warnings if there are issues that have the potential to affect end users. Plus, get alerts on issues that are already impacting end users.

• Best Practices for applications on Windows Azure

  Ten ways to ensure Windows Azure-based applications are architected for success

  Windows Azure SQL Database is a managed version of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, hosted by Microsoft in a Windows Azure datacenter. SQL Database is a core feature of the Windows Azure Platform.

  SQL Database is a multi-tenanted system in which many database instances are hosted in a single SQL Server instance running on a physical server or node. Therefore, it has different performance characteristics than pure SQL Server. In particular, high data scalability and high performance are achieved by horizontally scaling the data into multiple instances or shards. To provide high availability and satisfy demanding SLAs, each SQL Database instance is stored as one primary replica and two secondary replicas. When a node fails, the primary and secondary copies it hosts are re-created on other nodes. SQL Database uses a quorum commit in which a commit is deemed successful as soon as the primary and one of the two secondary replicas have completed the commit.

  This whitepaper describes the top ten issues that arise when deploying to SQL Database and explains how to mitigate these issues.

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Azure Best Practices - How to Successfully Architect Windows-Azure based Apps for the Cloud

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Discover how you can successfully architect Windows Azure-based applications to avoid and mitigate performance and reliability issues with our live webinar. During this webinar, we will examine why cloud-based applications must be architected differently from that of traditional applications, and break down key architectural patterns that truly unlock cloud benefits.

Cost Manager for Azure is a billing and usage management solution that analyzes your account to help you identify waste. Cost Manager drills into subscription data to provide a detailed view of resource utilization that can be interpreted to show exactly where you are spending money in the cloud. It plugs into your account and allows you to slice and dice billing detail within the application for customized reporting, project mapping, and allows you to set parameters to effectively manage resources and utilization.

• Increase Insight Into Spending - Graphically represent spending history, spending distribution, budget burn rate, and more.
• Projection - Project your next usage based on current one, and learn if your costs will increase.
• Manage Multiple Accounts - Use a single console to view information from multiple accounts.
• Download last month invoice.
• Alerts – Set budget for each account to receive online alerts, and email notifications if you overspend.
• Report on This – Generate current page into PDF report, to show others what you're seeing.
• FAQts - Use the related FAQts with quick questions to save time, or for more in-depth information.

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Foglight monitors your websites for basic performance and availability, alerting you to such problems in a timely manner.

Foglight provides a clear performance and availability visualization which is combined with a small number of rules designed to alert you to immediately actionable problems.

To make it simple to show others what you are seeing you can use our feature to effectively print the current screen.

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