Azure function Table binding producing a lot of logging noise - azure

Just upgraded an azure function from v3 to v4 and dotnet6. Noticed that the runtime bindings need to be updated too.
I'#ve just been testing it, and noticed there's a lot of verbose logging coming from the Table binding along with my own logging. How can I exclude this? Should I be looking to exclude it? It makes it hard to see the wood from the trees when looking at a live log
[FunctionName("Function2")]
public static async Task<IActionResult> Run(
[HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous, "get", "post", Route = null)] HttpRequest req,
[Table("Keys", Connection = "TableStorage")] TableClient keysTable,
ILogger log)
{
log.LogInformation("C# HTTP trigger function processed a request.");
if (keysTable != null)
{
try
{
var item2 = keysTable.GetEntity<TableEntity>("jon", "test");
}
catch (Exception)
{
log.LogError("key not present");
}
}
log.LogInformation("C# HTTP trigger function completed.");
return new OkObjectResult(new { });
}
log output
2022-12-28T12:40:14Z [Information] Request [6b093468-5e75-4e8c-b358-e47f0dffc632] POST https://xxx.table.core.windows.net/Tables?$format=REDACTED
x-ms-version:REDACTED
DataServiceVersion:REDACTED
Prefer:REDACTED
Accept:application/json; odata=minimalmetadata
x-ms-client-request-id:6b093468-5e75-4e8c-b358-e47f0dffc632
x-ms-return-client-request-id:true
User-Agent:azsdk-net-Data.Tables/12.7.1,(.NET 6.0.11; Microsoft Windows 10.0.14393)
x-ms-date:REDACTED
Authorization:REDACTED
Content-Type:application/json; odata=nometadata
client assembly: Azure.Data.Tables
2022-12-28T12:40:14Z [Information] Response [6b093468-5e75-4e8c-b358-e47f0dffc632] 409 Conflict (00.0s)
Cache-Control:no-cache
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
Server:Windows-Azure-Table/1.0,Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
x-ms-request-id:e63cd248-2002-0051-25b9-1ae043000000
x-ms-client-request-id:6b093468-5e75-4e8c-b358-e47f0dffc632
x-ms-version:REDACTED
X-Content-Type-Options:REDACTED
Preference-Applied:REDACTED
Date:Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:40:13 GMT
Content-Type:application/json; odata=minimalmetadata; streaming=true; charset=utf-8
2022-12-28T12:40:14Z [Information] Executing 'Function2' (Reason='This function was programmatically called via the host APIs.', Id=3598edde-1658-414b-9cc4-481bb6f7810e)
2022-12-28T12:40:14Z [Information] C# HTTP trigger function processed a request.,
I'd have thought only my logging would be appearing.
I've read through this and found this nugget of information
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-monitoring#disable-built-in-logging
Dependencies
Starting with version 2.x of Functions, Application Insights automatically collects data on dependencies for bindings that use certain client SDKs. Application Insights distributed tracing and dependency tracking aren't currently supported for C# apps running in an isolated worker process. Application Insights collects data on the following dependencies:
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Event Hubs
Azure Service Bus
Azure Storage services (Blob, Queue, and Table)
Doesnt say how to disable it
Host.json file
{
"version": "2.0",
"logging": {
"applicationInsights": {
"samplingSettings": {
"isEnabled": true,
"excludedTypes": "Request"
}
}
}
}

The host.json code you have given will log/capture the live data coming during the request and response.
As #AnandSowmithiran said, there is an attribute loglevel that defines the collection of logs you require while you run the Function App.
You have to add the logLevel attribute to host.json before publishing the function project and that attribute sets the values such as levels of logs which are Information, Error, Trace and there are two categories of log levels which are function logs and host logs.
Refer to the SO Q&A 70683888 given by #HariKrishna, regarding the Azure Functions Log Level Setting Information and also the optimization of heavy logs for minimizing the Monitor pricing.

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Azure App Insights issue with end to end tracing

I seem to be having some issues with tracing end to end using Azure functions and Service Bus Queue.
I have essentially a HTTP Trigger, that will then put the JSON message body onto the Service Bus Queue as a Message - with a generated Correlation Id (guid).
I have the Service Bus as a queue - this is fine.
I then have a Service Bus Queue Trigger function that pulls off the message from the queue. This is working fine.
However, the Service Map and the telematary and the request does not provide the end to end trace. It is split into two, my HTTP Trigger and Service Bus Trigger.
The operation-ids are different.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is the HTTP Trigger SEND function
[FunctionName("SendQueueMessage")]
public async Task<IActionResult> Run(
[HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, "get", "post", Route = null)] HttpRequest req,
ILogger log,
[ServiceBus("busqueue", Connection = "xxxxx", EntityType = EntityType.Queue)] ICollector<Message> outputQueueItem)
{
log.LogInformation("Processing a request.");
string requestBody = await new StreamReader(req.Body).ReadToEndAsync();
var correlationId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
outputQueueItem.Add(new Message(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(requestBody))
{
CorrelationId = correlationId
});
return new OkObjectResult($"Successful CorrelationId: {correlationId}");
}
Here is the Queue Trigger:
[FunctionName("RetrieveFromBusQueue")]
public static void Run([ServiceBusTrigger("busqueue",
Connection = "xxxxxxxx")]Message messageItem,
ILogger log)
{
log.LogInformation($"C# ServiceBus queue trigger function processed message {System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(messageItem.Body)}");
log.LogInformation($"Message ID: {messageItem?.CorrelationId}");
}
Is there some setting?
Both these functions are under the same FunctionApp.
It strangely never factors into the MAP the queue either.. I'm so confused here.
I am invoking the HTTP Trigger through the CODE and TEST page in Azure against the trigger function. Is it something to do with HTTP headers?
Can someone point me in the correct direction to go with this please?
UPDATE:
So... turns out, if I use a much older version of Microsoft.ApplicationInsights nuget package... 2.10.0 instead of 2.16.0 it actually traces my call to the Service bus and off the queue - with the correct display in the MAP.
This is absolutely bizarre to say the least - pulling my hair out for hours trying to figure out what I had done wrong. I still am unsure of why the latest version is causing this issue.
It seems a bug in the new version 2.16.0.
As per the comment, you'd better raise an issue about this in it's github here.
I had this issue recently with 3.1.6
Upgrading to 3.1.13 (latest) didn't help.
There is a compatibility problem in version >= 3.1.4, downgrading to 3.1.3 fixed the problem for me.

Http Trigger Azure function returns 404 randomly

We have a .net core azure function on function runtime 3. This works perfectly fine ran locally and most of the time on our deployed app service. However we've experienced intermittent 404 responses for requests that go through perfectly fine at other times.
There's no entries appearing in our logs or application insights telemetry for the failing requests.
It feels a lot like this issue on the azure-function-host github project:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/issues/5247
though that's targeting functions runtime 1 or 2.
Has anyone had similar issues or know of any way to get additional log info that might highlight what problem we're running into.
That might happen during scaling out or your function app about to change the server from one to another (for some reason). That's the actually cons of serverless applications.
But what I can suggest to you is:
Create HeartBeat Function similar to this:
private readonly IAsyncRepository<Business> _businessAsyncRepository;
public HeartBeat(IAsyncRepository<Business> businessAsyncRepository)
{
// Your all DI injections are here
_businessAsyncRepository = businessAsyncRepository;
}
[FunctionName(nameof(HeartBeat))]
public async Task<IActionResult> Run(
[HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous, "get", Route = null)] HttpRequest req,
ILogger log)
{
string requestBody = await new StreamReader(req.Body).ReadToEndAsync();
dynamic data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(requestBody);
return new OkObjectResult("OK");
}
And then create availability test on Application Insights and call the HeartBeat.
This will also give you a warm instance of Azure Functions at all time. But obviously you spend your 1m free call on consumption plan every time you call the heartbeat depending on how frequently you call the AF.

Sequence processing with Azure Function & Service Bus

I have an issue with Azure Function Service Bus trigger.
The issue is Azure function cannot wait a message done before process a new message. It process Parallel, it not wait 5s before get next message. But i need it process sequencecy (as image bellow).
How can i do that?
[FunctionName("HttpStartSingle")]
public static void Run(
[ServiceBusTrigger("MyServiceBusQueue", Connection = "Connection")]string myQueueItem,
[OrchestrationClient] DurableOrchestrationClient starter,
ILogger log)
{
Console.WriteLine($"MessageId={myQueueItem}");
Thread.Sleep(5000);
}
I resolved my problem by using this config in my host.json
{
"version": "2.0",
"extensions": {
"serviceBus": {
"messageHandlerOptions": {
"maxConcurrentCalls": 1
}
}
}}
There are two approaches you can accomplish this,
(1) You are looking for Durable Function with function chaining
For background jobs you often need to ensure that only one instance of
a particular orchestrator runs at a time. This can be done in Durable
Functions by assigning a specific instance ID to an orchestrator when
creating it.
(2) Based on the messages that you are writing to Queue, you need to partition the data, that will automatically handle the order of messages which you do not need to handle manually by azure function
In general, ordered messaging is not something I'd be striving to implement since the order can and at some point will be distorted. Saying that, in some scenarios, it's required. For that, you should either use Durable Function to orchestrate your messages or use Service Bus message Sessions.
Azure Functions has recently added support for ordered message delivery (accent on the delivery part as processing can still fail). It's almost the same as the normal Function, with a slight change that you need to instruct the SDK to utilize sessions.
public async Task Run(
[ServiceBusTrigger("queue",
Connection = "ServiceBusConnectionString",
IsSessionsEnabled = true)] Message message, // Enable Sessions
ILogger log)
{
log.LogInformation($"C# ServiceBus queue trigger function processed message: {Encoding.UTF8.GetString(message.MessageId)}");
await _cosmosDbClient.Save(...);
}
Here's a post for more detials.
Warning: using sessions will require messages to be sent with a session ID, potentially requiring a change on the sending side.

Azure function service bus trigger: How to stop batches of data from event stream and only allow one message from the queue at a time?

This is my first time using Azure functions and service bus.
I'm trying to build a function app in Visual Studio and I am able to connect to the queue topic (which I don't control). The problem is that every time I enable a breakpoint, 10s of messages are processed at once in VS which is making local testing very difficult (not to mention the problems arising from database pools).
How do I ensure that only 1 message gets processed at once until I hit complete?
public static void Run([ServiceBusTrigger("xxx", "yyy", AccessRights.Manage)]BrokeredMessage msg, TraceWriter log)
{
// do something here for one message at a time.
}
Set maxConcurrentCalls to 1 in the host.json. You also could get answer from host.json reference for Azure Functions
maxConcurrentCalls 16 The maximum number of concurrent calls to the callback that the message pump should initiate. By default, the Functions runtime processes multiple messages concurrently. To direct the runtime to process only a single queue or topic message at a time, set maxConcurrentCalls to 1
For function apps 2.0 you need to to update the host.json like this:
{
"version": "2.0",
...
"extensions": {
"serviceBus": {
"messageHandlerOptions": {
"maxConcurrentCalls": 1
}
}
}
}
Since the host.json file is usually published to Azure along with the function itself, it is preferable not to modify it for debugging and development purposes. Any change to host.json can be made to local.settings.json instead.
Here is how to set maxConcurrentCalls to 1:
{
"IsEncrypted": false,
"Values": {
...
"AzureFunctionsJobHost:Extensions:ServiceBus:MessageHandlerOptions:MaxConcurrentCalls": 1
}
}
This override functionality is described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-host-json#override-hostjson-values

Azure webjob not appearing to respect MaxDequeueCount property

I've got an Azure webjob with several queue-triggered functions. The SDK documentation at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-web/websites-dotnet-webjobs-sdk-storage-queues-how-to#config defines the MaxDequeueCount property as:
The maximum number of retries before a queue message is sent to a
poison queue (default is 5).
but I'm not seeing this behavior. In my webjob I've got:
JobHostConfiguration config = new JobHostConfiguration();
config.Queues.MaxDequeueCount = 1;
JobHost host = new JobHost(config);
host.RunAndBlock();
and then I've got a queue-triggered function in which I throw an exception:
public void ProcessQueueMessage([QueueTrigger("azurewejobtestingqueue")] string item, TextWriter logger)
{
if ( item == "exception" )
{
throw new Exception();
}
}
Looking at the webjobs dashboard I see that the SDK makes 5 attempts (5 is the default as stated above):
and after the 5th attempt the message is moved to the poison queue. I expect to see 1 retry (or no retries?) not 5.
UPDATE: Enabled detailed logging for the web app and opted to save those logs to an Azure blob container. Found some logs relevant to my problem located in the azure-jobs-host-archive container. Here's an example showing an item with a dequeue count of 96:
{
"Type": "FunctionCompleted",
"EndTime": "2017-02-22T00:07:40.8133081+00:00",
"Failure": {
"ExceptionType": "Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.FunctionInvocationException",
"ExceptionDetails": "Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.FunctionInvocationException: Exception while executing function: ItemProcessor.ProcessQueueMessage ---> MyApp.Exceptions.MySpecialAppExceptionType: Exception of type 'MyApp.Exceptions.MySpecialAppExceptionType' was thrown.
},
"ParameterLogs": {},
"FunctionInstanceId": "1ffac7b0-1290-4343-8ee1-2af0d39ae2c9",
"Function": {
"Id": "MyApp.Processors.ItemProcessor.ProcessQueueMessage",
"FullName": "MyApp.Processors.ItemProcessor.ProcessQueueMessage",
"ShortName": "ItemProcessor.ProcessQueueMessage",
"Parameters": [
{
"Type": "QueueTrigger",
"AccountName": "MyStorageAccount",
"QueueName": "stuff-processor",
"Name": "sourceFeedItemQueueItem"
},
{
"Type": "BindingData",
"Name": "dequeueCount"
},
{
"Type": "ParameterDescriptor",
"Name": "logger"
}
]
},
"Arguments": {
"sourceFeedItemQueueItem": "{\"SourceFeedUpdateID\":437530,\"PodcastFeedID\":\"2d48D2sf2\"}",
"dequeueCount": "96",
"logger": null
},
"Reason": "AutomaticTrigger",
"ReasonDetails": "New queue message detected on 'stuff-processor'.",
"StartTime": "2017-02-22T00:07:40.6017341+00:00",
"OutputBlob": {
"ContainerName": "azure-webjobs-hosts",
"BlobName": "output-logs/1ffd3c7b012c043438ed12af0d39ae2c9.txt"
},
"ParameterLogBlob": {
"ContainerName": "azure-webjobs-hosts",
"BlobName": "output-logs/1cf2c1b012sa0d3438ee12daf0d39ae2c9.params.txt"
},
"LogLevel": "Info",
"HostInstanceId": "d1825bdb-d92a-4657-81a4-36253e01ea5e",
"HostDisplayName": "ItemProcessor",
"SharedQueueName": "azure-webjobs-host-490daea03c70316f8aa2509438afe8ef",
"InstanceQueueName": "azure-webjobs-host-d18252sdbd92a4657d1a436253e01ea5e",
"Heartbeat": {
"SharedContainerName": "azure-webjobs-hosts",
"SharedDirectoryName": "heartbeats/490baea03cfdfd0416f8aa25aqr438afe8ef",
"InstanceBlobName": "zd1825bdbdsdgga465781a436q53e01ea5e",
"ExpirationInSeconds": 45
},
"WebJobRunIdentifier": {
"WebSiteName": "myappengine",
"JobType": "Continuous",
"JobName": "ItemProcessor",
"RunId": ""
}
}
What I'm further looking for though are logs which would show me detail for a particular queue item where processing succeeds (and hence is removed from the queue) or fails due to an exception and is placed in the poison queue. I so far haven't found any logs showing that detail. The log files referenced in the output above do not contain data of this sort.
UPDATE 2: Looked at the state of my poison queue and it seems like it could be a smoking gun but I'm too dense to put 2 and 2 together. Looking at the screenshot of the queue below you can see the message with the ID (left column) 431210 in there many times. The fact that it appears multiple times says to me that the message in the original queue is failing improperly.
As mentioned by Rob W, this issue exists when using WindowsAzure.Storage > 7.1.2. The issue has apparently been fixed in issue #1141 but this has not yet made it into a release.
Contributer asifferman has shared a code snippet in a comment post on issue #985. that appears to resolve the problem (it worked perfectly for me).
In case of link rot, and to meet SO rules, here's the post along with the code snippet:
For those (like me) who cannot wait the next release to get the
WebJobs SDK to work with the latest releases of Azure Storage, and
based on the explanations of #brettsam, you can simply write a custom
CustomQueueProcessorFactory to create a new CloudQueueMessage in
CopyMessageToPoisonQueueAsync.
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.Queues;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Queue;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
public class CustomQueueProcessorFactory : IQueueProcessorFactory
{
public QueueProcessor Create(QueueProcessorFactoryContext context)
{
return new CustomQueueProcessor(context);
}
private class CustomQueueProcessor : QueueProcessor
{
public CustomQueueProcessor(QueueProcessorFactoryContext context)
: base(context)
{
}
protected override Task CopyMessageToPoisonQueueAsync(CloudQueueMessage message, CloudQueue poisonQueue, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
var newMessage = new CloudQueueMessage(message.Id, message.PopReceipt);
newMessage.SetMessageContent(message.AsBytes);
return base.CopyMessageToPoisonQueueAsync(newMessage, poisonQueue, cancellationToken);
}
}
}
}
Then in your Main, you just have to set the custom queue processor
factory in the job host configuration:
var config = new JobHostConfiguration();
config.Queues.QueueProcessorFactory = new CustomQueueProcessorFactory();
I could get it work with WindowsAzure.Storage 8.1.1 and
Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs 2.0.0. Hope that helps!
If you are still seeking an answer, we tried some of the answers listed without success. It turns out that it was a version issue with the Storage sdk (WindowsAzure.Storage) and the Webjob sdk (Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs). To fix it, we ended up having to downgrade our version of the Storage sdk to 7.2.1 (we had recently upgraded to 8.1.1). Based on the article below, the engineers are now aware of the problems and will hopefully have it fixed soon:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk/issues/1045
MaxDequeueCount property works correctly for me if I configure it.
So it is very odd that it is not working for you. When I set
config.Queues.MaxDequeueCount = 2; then I get the expected result please refer to the screenshot.
And we also could use dequeueCount to control the retry times. The following is the demo code for no try.
public void ProcessQueueMessage([QueueTrigger("queue")] string item, int dequeueCount, TextWriter logger)
{
if (dequeueCount == 1)
{
if (item == "exception")
{
throw new Exception();
}
logger.WriteLine($"NewMsge: {item}");
Console.WriteLine($"NewMsge: {item}");
}
}
Log info please refer to the screenshot
I suspect it's because you're not actually running the binaries that you think you are in Azure. This one threw me for a loop as well.
When you're running triggered WebJobs on Azure, publishing a new version of the WebJob doesn't cause the old triggered WebJob to be immediately unloaded and the new one started. If you look at your WebJob logs, I suspect you will not see a restart when you republished.
This is because Kudu by default copies all of your WebJob files to a temp directory and executes them. From the Kudu WebJob docs:
The WebJob is copied to a temporary directory under %TEMP%\jobs{job
type}{job name}{random name} and will run from there This option
prevents the original WebJob binaries from being locked which might
cause issues redeploying the WebJob. For example updating an .exe file
that is currently running.
The only success I've had in making sure that a newly published triggered WebJob is actually running is to do the following:
Log into the Kudu console. It's https://yourappname.scm.azurewebsites.net. You'll use the same credentials that you do when logging into the Azure Portal.
Once logged in, click on the Process Explorer menu option at the top. Find your WebJob process that's currently running, and kill it.
FTP into your Web App. Browse to the directory containing your WebJob code, and delete it. It should be under /app_data/jobs/triggered/[your webjob name].
I then hop over to the portal, browse to by Web App management blade that hosts the WebJob, click on the WebJobs menu option, and confirm that the old WebJob is no longer there.
Publish my new WebJob from Visual Studio.
That should guarantee you that you're running the code that you publish. Hope this helps.
I am seeing the same thing where messages go way past the max dequeue count. I will post more details in a bit, but I am also seeing what appears to be a very large number end up in poison queue. So I suspect that it is adding to poison queue after 5, but that trying more which ends up in lots in poison queue (hundreds).
For anyone using the Azure WebJobs v3.x SDK:
In v3.x, hosts.json does not work for WebJob.
Instead, version 3.x uses the standard ASP.NET Core APIs, so you need to configure it using the ConfigureWebJobs method:
static async Task Main()
{
var builder = new HostBuilder();
builder.ConfigureWebJobs(b =>
{
b.AddAzureStorageCoreServices();
b.AddAzureStorage(a => {
a.BatchSize = 8;
a.NewBatchThreshold = 4;
a.MaxDequeueCount = 4;
a.MaxPollingInterval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15);
});
});
var host = builder.Build();
using (host)
{
await host.RunAsync();
}
}
Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/pt-pt/azure/app-service/webjobs-sdk-how-to#queue-storage-trigger-configuration

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