Performance

In the Ultra Transcenders books

AZ-305AZ-700

Each book explains Performance in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Geographic

  A Traffic Manager routing method that picks the endpoint according to where the user is located geographically.

• Traffic Manager

  A global traffic router working purely through DNS, with methods such as priority, weighted, performance and geographic, for any protocol. HTTP traffic never passes through it and it caches no content.

Related terms

• Advanced Analytics

  Adds device query, device scopes, a device timeline, anomaly detection, resource performance and battery health on top of endpoint analytics. It comes with the Intune Suite and with Intune Plan 2.

• Application Insights Profiler

  Capability of Application Insights that records performance traces from a running app, revealing slow requests and hot paths in the code. User behaviour is not what it profiles.

• Azure Advisor

  Azure service that reviews resources you already run and recommends improvements in cost, performance, reliability and security based on best practice.

• Azure Internet Analyzer

  Now-retired Azure service for measuring how internet performance looked to end users connecting to Azure endpoints.

• Azure Migrate appliance

  Discovery VM run on premises and registered to exactly one Azure Migrate project; it is deployed from a Hyper-V VHD, a VMware OVA or an installer script, finds servers without agents and collects the performance data that assessments draw on.

• Azure Monitor Logs

  Within Azure Monitor, the store for log data: records of logs and performance counters are kept in Log Analytics workspaces, where KQL queries retrieve them.

• Azure Well-Architected Framework

  A set of Microsoft design guidance aimed at raising the quality of a workload. Its five pillars cover reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence and the efficiency of performance.

• Bi-directional relationship

  Here filters travel from either table to the other. That helps with many-to-many bridges, but because it can hurt performance and produce ambiguous paths, Microsoft Learn suggests turning it on only when needed or using CROSSFILTER in a measure. Row-level security still filters one way unless the setting to apply security filters both ways is chosen.