In this post, I’ll show you how to implement (regional) failover in Azure API Management using priority-based load-balanced pools, backend circuit breakers and retry policies. The setup sends traffic to the local backend by default and automatically fails over to the secondary backend when the primary backend becomes unavailable.
Standard availability tests in Application Insights have limitations like no multi-step authentication, no mTLS support and no access to private networks. This post shows you how to create custom availability tests using .NET and Azure Functions to overcome these restrictions while gaining full control over your monitoring logic.
Learn how to call OAuth-protected APIs from .NET applications using Azure managed identity. This post shows how to implement secure API calls from Azure Functions without managing secrets, using the Azure Identity library and custom HTTP message handlers.
I’ve recently published a Bicep template for quickly deploying Azure Integration Services, including Azure API Management, Function App, Logic App, Service Bus and Event Hubs namespace, along with supporting resources such as Application Insights, Key Vault and Storage Account.
