Squeeze out the every paid-for minute from Windows Azure!
Did you know that Windows Azure billing is done by the clock hour? This means that if you scaled up an extra instance at 3:30pm and scaled down that instance at 4:30pm, you will incur charges for two...
View ArticleAuto scaling strategies for Windows Azure, Amazon's EC2 and other cloud...
The strategies discussed in this article can be applied to any cloud platform that has an ability to dynamically provision compute resources, even though I rely on examples from AzureWatch auto scaling...
View ArticleManaging environments in a distributed, Azure, or other cloud based Visual...
During development, testing and support stages of the project, there is usually a need to test or debug code against multiple environments: Local with and without Azure emulation, Dev environment, QA...
View ArticleFree Azure resource-monitoring utility: AzurePing
We are pleased to announce the release of AzurePing: a free Azure resource-monitoring utility. AzurePing is a simple Windows Service that pings any number of Azure Storage resources, SQL (Azure)...
View ArticleActive monitoring of Azure Storage, websites, and SQL Azure
In the last few weeks, we released a colossal amount of new features to AzureWatch! Active monitoring of Websites, Azure Storage accounts, and SQL Azure databases just to name a few. We've also...
View ArticleIntroducing preview of auto-scaling, healing, and monitoring of Azure VM's...
We are excited to introduce the long-awaited AzureWatch support for monitoring, manage, auto-scaling and healing of Azure Virtual Machines. We are soft launching this functionality in preview mode and...
View ArticleWindows Azure Auto-scaling Options Side-by-Side Comparison
Gone are the days when AzureWatch was the only option for auto-scaling of Windows Azure cloud services. Today, basic auto-scaling support is also offered in Windows Azure itself (free while in beta)...
View ArticleWindows Event Log monitoring with AzureWatch
This week we are excited to release a long-requested feature in AzureWatch: support for active monitoring of Windows Event Logs. We are starting things off with support for Application, System and...
View ArticleMonitor Windows Azure Service Dashboard!
AzureWatch users can now receive notifications when changes are published to the Windows Azure Service Dashboard. Upon logging into AzureWatch portal, users can choose to subscribe to any of the Azure...
View ArticleAzureWatch compatibility with Azure SDK v2.5 and above
At the end of 2014, Microsoft released a new Windows Azure SDK v2.5 that has significant impact on monitoring of Azure Cloud Services (web and worker roles) with Azure Diagnostics. In a nutshell,...
View ArticleAzureWatch retirement announcement and transition to CloudMonix
It has been more than 6 years since I originally launched AzureWatch to help companies monitor and auto-scale their Azure Cloud Services. Over the years, as the Azure platform grew and matured, my...
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