Retrieving Performance Metrics from Azure Redis Portal

Question

We are evaluating our application performance on cloud. We are automating the process of running and collecting performance counters from the application (from web roles, sql azure database, redis cache).
We can get the metrics for Redis cache instance on the portal. But we want to retrieve the metrics from portal and use it for comparing the results between different tests run. What is the best way we can
achieve that?

Answer 1

Hi Harit,
Here is some background and an answer.
Redis is only available in the new preview Azure portal. The new portal uses a new underlying deployment mechanism called CSM. The libraries you mentioned do not support Redis. There is a new set of libraries (microsoft.azure.insights) that you have
to use. These libraries are in preview.
Please take a look at the SDK here:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.Insights/ The documentation is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn802153.aspx
I have a sample which shows how you can get the data for Redis.
https://github.com/rustd/RedisSamples/blob/master/CustomMonitoring/Program.cs
Please make sure when you enable diagnostics for your Cache, then you have provided a storage account as well. This is a new feature that we are rolling out where the diagnostic data will be stored in a storage account specified by the user.
Hopefully this answers your question.