Enabling auto-instrumentation for your Lambda functions provides detailed insights into the performance and security of your serverless applications. Developers often also use custom instrumentation to fine-tune visibility and further tailor telemetry to their business needs. However, different teams within your organization might use a variety of instrumentation libraries, and achieving more granular visibility can come at the expense of data portability and interoperability.

It is vital to understand the price of Azure Logic Apps for multiple reasons, regardless of whether you are a developer overseeing their implementation or a business wishing to use the platform for your operations. Understanding the pricing model facilitates efficient budget planning and allocation for your tasks. You can avoid unforeseen expenses and make more accurate cost estimates.

It’s that time of the year again as re:Invent is almost upon us Here is a list of the serverless-related announcements so far that you should know about.

As cloud adoption expands, subscribing and provisioning resources increase day by day. Regular analysis and assessment are essential to monitor usage, ensuring that cloud resource spending remains efficient and minimizing waste. The assessments can be made using many ways but will need some level of technical competence and regular maintenance: Not all stakeholders will have access and the necessity to check through these tools.

Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft Azure for managing and safeguarding cryptographic keys, secrets, and digital certificates used by cloud applications and services. It offers a secure and compliant way to store, manage, and control access to these sensitive pieces of information. Key Vault is designed to help protect the confidentiality and integrity of data, enhance the security of applications, and simplify key management tasks.

The Azure Integration Account is part of the Logic Apps Enterprise Integration Pack (EIP) and serves as a secure, easily manageable, and scalable repository for the integration artifacts that you create. You can create and store agreements, certificates, maps, partners, and schemas in your integration account and refer them seamlessly across all your Logic Apps. This streamlined approach facilitates the swift and hassle-free creation of B2B processes using Logic Apps.

Power Automate is a cloud-based service that Microsoft provides as part of Power Platform. It allows users to create automated workflows integrating various applications and services. It is designed for a wide range of users, from business professionals looking to automate daily tasks to developers who can create more complex automation. A trigger initiates a Flow in Power Automate followed by predefined actions. Each execution of the Flow creates a run.

Open Telemetry (OTel) is an open source observability framework that has garnered significant attention for its powerful capabilities in monitoring metrics, logs and traces.. It is second only to Kubernetes in the CNCF velocity chart with contributions being made from major players in the cloud industry, and has a growing community helping build out a thriving ecosystem.

As autumn graced the vibrant city of Chicago, I had the distinct opportunity to immerse myself in the heart of innovation and camaraderie at the CNCF’s Kubecon North America conference. Over the span of four remarkable days, from Nov 6-9, I was fortunate enough to walk alongside the many enthusiasts, contributors and organizers of open source and cloud native communities.

Monitoring Azure Logic Apps is crucial for managing and improving the performance of your integration workflows in Azure. As more organizations use Logic Apps to automate their business processes, having a strong monitoring system is important.