I’ve just finished publishing a prototype of the Windows Azure Diagnostics Viewer onto code gallery at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wazdmon.
The Windows Azure Diagnostics Viewer is a prototype web application that can be used to view and analyze Windows Azure Diagnostics information.
The Windows Azure Diagnostics Viewer has 2 components, a website and a scheduler. The website provides a UI to allow you to view diagnostics information collected by Windows Azure, including performance counter graphs, logs as well as some customer data including Windows Azure Queue statistics and service status data.
The website is designed to be “injected” into an existing worker role by adding references to a few dll’s as well as the website “exe”. The goal here is to make adding the viewer to a project painless – although in the prototype there are still several steps to complete.
Once started, the viewer website uses the HWC to host the website.
As well as simply viewing data collected by the existing Windows Azure Diagnostics system, the viewer can also display pre-aggregated data as well as information about Queue lengths and even service status. It does this with the help of the scheduler.
The scheduler is also designed to be “injected” into a role, and simply executes specified tasks. These tasks are contained in dll’s which are loaded from blob storage. The viewer provides shortcuts to common tasks, such as queue length collection and data aggregation.
Whilst this is a prototype, it has inspired some other thinking and ideas. You can expect a rev for the new SDK shortly after the new SDK hits as we’d like to take advantage of some of the new SDK features.
Anyway, check it out and let us know what you think.
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