This post is a collaboration between Divya Swarnkar and Kent Weare
We are excited to announce a new capability in Integration Environment that allows you to monitor Azure Integration Services, including Azure Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, and Azure API Management (APIM), from a single pane of glass. This enhancement is designed to streamline your monitoring experience, providing a comprehensive view of your integration workflows and services. Here’s why this is important and how it will benefit you.
The Integration Environment was launched with a vision to provide a dedicated landing zone for Azure Integration Services. Alongside this, we introduced the capability to group AIS resources as an application. The unified monitoring experience leverages the Integration Environment as this landing zone, utilizing the grouping capability to organize AIS resources effectively as an application. This approach enhances the monitoring experience by aligning it with the application-centric view of your resources, making management and troubleshooting more intuitive and efficient.
Simplified Operations: With telemetry from Logic Apps, Service Bus, and APIM consolidated in a single Application Insights instance, you can view and manage your integration services more efficiently. This reduces the complexity of switching between multiple monitoring tools, allowing you to focus on what matters most – your business processes.
Enhanced Visibility: A unified monitoring dashboard offers a holistic view of your integration landscape. This comprehensive visibility helps in quickly identifying and diagnosing issues across different services, ensuring that your workflows run smoothly and without interruptions.
Improved Performance Monitoring: By centralizing telemetry, you can better analyze performance metrics and detect anomalies across all your integration services. This enables proactive troubleshooting and optimization, leading to improved reliability and performance of your applications.
Streamlined Troubleshooting: When issues arise, having all relevant data in one place accelerates the troubleshooting process. You can trace the root cause of problems across your Logic Apps, Service Bus, and APIM without having to piece together information from disparate sources.
To start using this new capability, ensure that telemetry from all your resources in Azure Integration Services is directed to the same Application Insights instance. Select the appropriate instance from the dropdown menu in your monitoring dashboard, and you’re ready to go.
Here are the steps –
There are three key tabs on this dashboard which are organized by the type of service in AIS. For each tab, there are subtabs which are organized based on the categories relevant for that service. Let’s look into each of them –
The Overview tab provides an aggregated view into the Logic Apps and workflows in your application. You can look into the workflow level details in the worklow tab. For the workflows that needs more analysis, you can use the Runs tab to drill down into the run history and action failures. Finally, the Compute tab gives you the underlying compute utilization for these workloads.
For Service Bus, you have tabs to analyze the aggregated data for the entities that are in your application. The Requests tab helps you get more information on the Requests received and their status by the entities (queues/topics). The Messages tab likewise shows you the detailed information on the Messages in the entities and their status.
The Timeline provides time charts to see the overall trends for the requests and the response times. You can get detailed information about the status and processing times of each requests by APIs and Operations through the APIs and Operations tabs.
We believe this new feature will greatly enhance your monitoring experience and provide significant value to your integration projects. Stay tuned for more updates and enhancements as we continue to improve unified monitoring experience for Azure Integration Services.
Feedback opportunity
If you are interested in participating in 1:1 feedback session regarding operation and monitoring of integration applications, we would love to hear from you. Please fill this form (https://aka.ms/unifiedais-preview) and we’ll reach out to you.
To see the recorded demo of this capability, please watch this YouTube video.
In addition to the unified monitoring investments made to Integration Environment, we also have some Business Process Tracking updates to share with you. The updates to Business Process Tracking are the direct result of customer feedback from organizations using our features launched at Ignite 2023.
Updates to Business Process Tracking include:
To try out the new Business Process Tracking capabilities, please perform the following steps:
Note: Each stage must have a Success status modeled. Adding a Failure status is optional.
With your solution now tracking your data, you can extend your experience by consuming this data in other analytics tools like Power BI or Azure Monitor Workbooks.
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If you would like to see a recorded demo of this content, please watch the following YouTube video.
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