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After being busy with a lot of other side work, and the whole craziness going on with the current pandemic, I have finally gotten some time to work on my Discord Bot. The whole point of this bot is to use an Event based architecture to build out a workable, usable bot. And if I can sneak a bit of machine learning, cloud monitoring, ARM templates, session management and any other interesting thing I can justify playing with :-).

When you create an Azure Function in Visual Studio you will have a ILogger injected into your method that provides logging services for you. When you run your Azure Functions locally this logger will display messages in the console, but for deployments you can connect Azure Application Insights to your Function to capture these logs, as well as provide a heap of monitoring information. Let’s check out how this works and what you can do with it.

One of the first things you want to do when you start out developing an Azure Function is to run it and potentially debug issues. You want to see what is going on with your Function before deployment to make sure it is working as intended. Let’s take a look at how to set up Visual Studio (2019 Community Edition) to run Functions locally, see what is going on and debug them.