Azure Cosmos DB: autoscale, session state, monitoring, and more

Azure Friday (Audio) - Channel 9

Kirill Gavrylyuk, Matias Quaranta, Deborah Chen, and Estefani Arroyo join Scott Hanselman to provide another set of updates for Azure Cosmos DB. Learn about: using Azure Cosmos DB as a Session State Provider for ASP.NET Core; the latest updates for Azure Cosmos DB free tier; how to optimize cost and performance by scaling the throughput (RU/s) of your database or container automatically and instantly; and the great new monitoring and diagnostic features that make it even easier to monitor and debug your Azure Cosmos DB resources using insights, workbooks and logs.

[0:00:00]– Introduction with Kirill Gavrylyuk
[0:01:56]– Session state provider with Matias Quaranta
[0:10:32]– Free tier with Deborah Chen
[0:12:57]– Autoscale with Deborah Chen
[0:25:18]– Monitoring and Diagnostics with Estefani Arroyo
[0:33:21]– Wrap-up

• Microsoft Caching Extension using Azure Cosmos DB (GitHub)
• Azure Cosmos DB free tier
• Create Azure Cosmos containers and databases with autoscale throughput
• Provision autoscale throughput on database or container in Azure Cosmos DB - SQL API
• How to choose between standard (manual) and autoscale provisioned throughput
• Monitor Azure Cosmos DB data by using diagnostic settings in Azure
• Monitor and debug with insights in Azure Cosmos DB
• Work with NoSQL data in Azure Cosmos DB learning path
• Create a free account (Azure)