I found this from several months back on Application Insights and Service Fabric and I'm wondering if there is any new information.
I would really like to get CPU, Memory, Storage and other metrics out of service fabric and the reliable actors. Having it presented in a user friendly HUD like app insights provides would be awesome!
Thanks!
On the azure portal, you can now create a resource called 'Service Fabric Analytics' to create a nice dashboard for your cluster. Configure as cluster like described here. It's OMS based, not Appinsights though.
The Service Fabric Solution helps identify and troubleshoot issues
across your Service Fabric cluster, by providing visibility into how
your Service Fabric virtual machines are performing and how your
applications and micro-services are running. Available features
include: • Get insight into your Service Fabric framework • Get
insight into the performance of your Service Fabric applications and
micro-services • View events from your applications and micro-services
Data collected: Service Fabric Reliable Service Events, Service Fabric
Actor Events, Service Fabric Operational Events, Event tracing for
Windows events and Windows event logs. Requirements: This solution
will only work if you have set up Azure Diagnostics on your Service
Fabric VMs, and have configured OMS to collect data for your WAD
tables.
In service fabric with Eventflow https://github.com/Azure/diagnostics-eventflow you had a option to send the diagnostics data to multiple data stores like WAD Tables, OMS, elastic search and application insights.
Have a look at it. It is really straight forward and easily integrate with ETW events and will serve your purpose.
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I have a greenfield application that I would like to host on Service Fabric but high availability will be a key concern. Is there a way for a cluster to span across Azure region’s? Does Service Fabric recognize Availability Zones?
Is there a way for a cluster to span across Azure region’s?
Yes, it's in the FAQ.
The core Service Fabric clustering technology can be used to combine
machines running anywhere in the world, so long as they have network
connectivity to each other. However, building and running such a
cluster can be complicated.
If you are interested in this scenario, we encourage you to get in
contact either through the Service Fabric GitHub Issues List or
through your support representative in order to obtain additional
guidance. The Service Fabric team is working to provide additional
clarity, guidance, and recommendations for this scenario.
Does Service Fabric recognize Availability Zones?
Yes, but limited.
Make sure to check out this example (marked as 'not production ready'). And check out SF Mesh as well, which allows you to deploy to multiple AZ's. (but currently in preview)
I have 3-node on-prem cluster. Now i want to collect and analyze reverse proxy logs (and other system service fabric logs). I google and found this article and it says
Refer to Collect reverse proxy events to enable collecting events from
these channels in local and Azure Service Fabric clusters.
But that link describes how to enable, configure and collect reverse proxy logs for clusters in Azure. And I don't understand how to do it on-prem.
Please, help!
Service Fabric Events are just ETW events, you have the option to use the Builtin mechanism to collect and forward these events to a Monitoring Application like Windows Azure Diagnostics, or you can build your own.
If you decide to follow the approach in the documents, it will work on azure or On premises, the only caveat is that On-Premises it will send the logs to Azure, but it will work the same way.
On Premises, another way is build you own collector using EventFlow, you can configure EventFlow to collect the ReverseProxy ETW events and then forward these to ELK or any other monitoring platform.
I have a bunch of services deploying as guest executables to service fabric and all seems fine. I was wondering if there was any point in porting the services to be native Fabric Service services.
Looking at the documentation I can't seem to find any benefits of having implementing them as such, am I missing something obvious?
If your services are stateless there is probably no compelling reason to migrate them into native stateless services. It could be different if your services were stateful; in this context I mean that they store some state inside the process.
The state in native stateful services is stored redundantly, so your services can cope with node failures. This could increase the resilience of your service. In general, you usually create native services in green field situations and rely on guest executables and containers in migration/hybrid situations.
Guest Executable is missing out on some advanced features but it is up to you to decide if you need them.
Benefits of running a guest executable in Service Fabric
There are several advantages to running a guest executable in a Service Fabric:
High availability. Applications that run in Service Fabric are made highly available. Service Fabric ensures that instances of an application are running.
Health monitoring. Service Fabric health monitoring detects if an application is running, and provides diagnostic information if there is a failure.
Application lifecycle management. Besides providing upgrades with no downtime, Service Fabric provides automatic rollback to the previous version if there is a bad health event reported during an upgrade.
Density. You can run multiple applications in a cluster, which eliminates the need for each application to run on its own hardware.
Discoverability: Using REST you can call the Service Fabric Naming service to find other services in the cluster.
I.e. There is something called Stateless Reliable Services - http://www.jamessturtevant.com/posts/Service-Fabric-Service-Types/
The above link will explain it more.
I have a series of WebApi self hostable services that I need to make available both on-premise and the internet. Currently they are only on-premise, but I was wondering will service fabric allow me to have an on premise cluster and azure hosted cluster connected and handle this hybrid scenario? Can I have a service fabric cluster with nodes both on premise and in azure?
I have it on my backlog to explore leveraging service fabric, but if this scenario was available we would bump up that priority.
Any details on implementing this or even an alternative solution would be greatly appreciated. We tried using Azure App Proxy as well for the internet exposure, but are having problems with the authentication headers going across as we are not using Azure AD.
It's possible to create a cluster that spans multiple locations. Like mentioned this article.
However you should realize that it's not a supported feature. If you make a mistake, loosing one of two locations will result in data loss.
I'd recommend using one cluster.
Azure Service Fabric whats the purpose of different Services ,please give with examples and also step by step process for deployment
I think you need to take a look at the service fabric documentation.
Supported services
- Reliable Services, Reliable Actors, Guest Executable
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