Understanding logging and monitoring in Azures Functions

In this section, we will learn and understand the monitoring and logging mechanisms available to the user in Microsoft Azure Functions. Perform the following steps:

1. By clicking on the Monitor option under the function, we can access the monitoring suite of that particular Azure Function:

2. The monitoring suite for the function that we created looks like this:

3. Now, click on the Open Application Insights option at the top of the menu. This will take you to the detailed monitoring page:

4. If you scroll down, you will see the function-specific metrics, such as the server response times and request performance. This is very useful as it means we don't need separate dashboards for monitoring all these statistics:

Now that we have learned about Microsoft Azure Functions logging and monitoring, let's go through some best practices.