Azure Functions – Simon Holman

Ignore Azure Function false positive dependency failures using TelemetryInitializers

Technical / June 20, 2020

Let me start by saying that I love Appication Insights. The level of detail it gives you out of the box to monitor and troubleshoot application issues is fantastic. BUT, I loathe false positive error messages, especially dependency failures. If you’ve done any work with Azure storage then you’ve likely come across what I’m talking …

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Importing a CSV file into Azure SQL with Azure Functions

1 Comment / Azure / June 6, 2019

Importing CSV files into Azure SQL is quick and easy using Azure Functions. By utilising LinqToSQL, reading and serialising each line of the CSV into an IEnumerable of objects only takes a few lines of code. Start by creating an Azure Functions project in Visual Studio. I’m using Visual Studio 2019 and have ASP.NET Core …

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Azure Functions not showing all executions under Monitoring

Azure / June 5, 2019

I recently deployed a very simple Azure Functions 2.0 project from Visual Studio 2019 that contained a single timer triggered function. The function had a daily timer trigger and I noticed that there were gaps in the executions in the monitoring tab in the Azure portal.