Monitoring and Managing Your Windows Azure Applications and Services

Windows Azure is Microsoft's open and flexible cloud platform. Come learn how you can easily and effectively monitor and manage the applications and virtual machines you've built and deployed to Windows Azure. In this session we cover some of the basics of how Windows Azure works, how to configure and instrument your applications to be more manageable and also how to use all the available tools to monitor and diagnose your applications. We also cover some advanced concepts like VIP Swaps and rolling upgrades so that you can get the best uptime for your application. See the new management portal in action and learn how to use the APIs and PowerShell cmdlets to monitor your applications and services in Azure. At the end of this session, you will have a good understanding of the various things you can do as a developer and as an administrator to reduce the overall cost and effort in managing your applications in Windows Azure. #TEAZR319