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We are excited to announce that there is an updated version of Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) available now. Performance counter collection frequency was reduced from 5 minutes to 1 minute for standard and custom counters so you’ll see trends more granularly and faster. There are also improvements in our log collection feature and bug fixes impro...

If you are looking to get started with Application Insights I will be hosting a webinar Thursday 8:00am PST where I will be walking through a getting started session looking at Availability Monitoring, Performance Monitoring, Usage Monitoring and how to make all this actionable!Register for event: https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx...

The thought leaders in the area of Testing locally  run  “Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group”.  I have been asked me to come in and show them how Microsoft is integrating Testing tools into the DevOps work flows!Definitely looking forward to it!3rd Thursday, April 17th,  6:30 pm at CompuCom 11900 NE 1st ...

James Beeson, Alan Wills - Our group runs about 20 web applications, serving a community of about 100k users spread around the world. Since we started using Application Insights, we’ve found we have a much clearer view of our applications’ performance, and as a result, our users are seeing better performing and more useful apps. This post tells yo...

This final release of Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has over 100 new features and over 30 in JUST in the ALM space alone!  As many already know the developer division is now continually adding features to Visual Studio and these quarterly updates are our chance to both fix issues you have...

If you happen to be in Denmark April 30th and looking for some great content one of the XAML MVPs will be doing a session on Application Insights…including best practices on how they instrumented the Windows Store Build Application. Thanks Thomas!   A look at Application Insight Application Insight er en relativ ny teknologi fra Microsoft...

I am getting ready for Build and realized I wanted an easy way to view, search and add sessions to my schedule…Luckily the the folks at BlueFragments have created this Application! Of course this application is entirely instrumented with Application Insights – which I will be demoing at the Build conference! See you there!   To install it sim...

This year not only am I lucky enough to go to Build but I am going down with a bunch of cool prizes such as the new Arc Mice (I have been trying to get one of these since Christmas!!) or a Premium Turtle Beach Xbox One (noise canceling!) Gaming Headset Which begs the question:  “How do I get one!?””:       Day 1 Install Application Insights...

I am continually amazed the lengths that our MVPS go out of their way to help the community. At the last MVP summit one of the System Center MVPs, Kevin Greene, heard from his peers that there wasn’t a great walk through for getting stared with Application Insights.  Rather than waiting for us he rolled up his sleeves and did his own!…Great jo...

We received a lot of requests to redo the the load test Webinar…That being the case we have two more sessions:  Thursday, March 20, 2014, 9:00 a.m. PST Not certain why the abstract was removed the invitation pages but here is what Manas and I will be going over: With the introduction of Visual Studio Online launched in Novembe...