Application Initialization with Azure Functions
TL/DR You can warm up a function app using an applicationhost.config transform with an appliationhost.xdt. This ONLY works with Windows as application initialization is a concept built into IIS. I’m not aware of the same feature set available in Linux. Skip to the config section for the transformation setup. Background A couple months ago I…
Application Insights Integration with Function Apps in Azure Government or other Clouds
The use of the APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING in Azure Functions is now built into the runtime. Note my examples are for Azure US Government cloud but this can ultimately be used in any cloud with the correct endpoints specified. ********Update 4/28/2020********The Application Insights product team updated the certificate so you can now use the following connection string…
