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Cosmos DB Change Feed Processed by Azure Functions – Application Insights Telemetry

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While working with a Cosmos DB Change Feed processor running as an Azure Function,  I noticed that ‘requests’ are logged as Application Insights telemetry, but show up with no URL, and a response Code of 0. I was able to reproduce this using a lean example, generated from the func new generators. (Code available here: ) I’m trying to figure out why this is, so this is a kind of...

Using Mediatr with Azure Functions

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I’ve used Mediatr for some time, to reduce controller action bloat, and have spoken about it a few times, on how I use it to avoid the classic ‘xService’ pattern: Controller Action -> ‘Service’ -> Repo Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work with Azure Functions, and would like to be able to use Mediatr, as I can in ASP.net Core. Up until recently, this has...

Reliably Processing Azure Service Bus Topics with Azure Functions

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At ASOS, we’re currently migrating some of our message and event processing applications from Worker Roles (within classic Azure Cloud Services) to Azure Functions. A significant benefit of using Azure Functions to process our messages is the billing model. As an example, with our current approach, we use a Worker Role to listen to subscriptions to Azure Service Bus topics. These Worker Roles are...

Disable gzip responses in Azure Functions

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By default, responses from Http Triggered Azure Functions are gzipped: Not all clients are able to handle this (although they should be) Turning it off isn’t particularly trivial. A change needs to be made to applicationhost.config – which is located in LocalSiteRoot/Config However, this file is readonly, so the change needs to be made via a xdt transform. In the Azure portal...

Azure function not receiving json messages using Topic Service Bus Trigger

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While developing an Azure Function application, using this tutorial, I encountered a problem. Ultimately, using `func new` generated my function (the run.csx file) which looked like this: public static void Run(string mySbMsg, TraceWriter log) { log.Info($"C# ServiceBus topic trigger function processed message: {mySbMsg}"); } Side note: the `mySbMsg` is important – it’s defined in the...