September 2023

I haven’t written much about Application Insights, even though I’ve been using it intensively for about five-six years now. In this post, I will share with you five tips and features from Application Insights that you can use to enhance your monitoring and logging experience.

If you don’t know what Application Insights is you can learn more about it from Microsoft Learn

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Yes you read the topic right. Microsoft has released a long waited feature, that allows us to create static service connections. These connections does not expire after two years and even better, they are more secure and easy to use. Until today we had few options, when we wanted to connect our precious Azure resources with our Azure DevOps instance. Main way was to create a new service connection into …

Visual Studio has received a great improvement into .http file handling. Version 17.8 Preview 1 includes a support for secret handling, so you don’t need to add comments about replacing tokens or access keys into .http files anymore. From now on you can use ASP.NET Core user secrets, Windows DPAPI or even Azure Key Vault to store your API secrets. I think that Azure Key Vault is the most interesting, …