Azure App Configuration trace request ip address? - azure

I have multiple web apps retrieving the app settings from Azure App Configuration Service on startup without any refresh options. I also have eventgrid and webhooks set up to push notifications of key changes down from the Azure App Configuration service to each web app. Everything is working and I should not get that many incoming http request to the Azure App Configuration service. But sometimes I'm getting unexpecting httprequests in the Azure App Configuration metrics. I can't seem to find any other information about each request to figure out which app may not be configured correctly. Is there a log or appinsights that captures more information for each request made to the Azure App Configuration Service?

We are working on exposing request logs to your App Configuration store. The information of client IP addresses will be included. The feature is tracked in https://github.com/Azure/AppConfiguration/issues/333. It should be available soon.

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Issues in consuming WCF Service from a Azure PAAS Instance / Same thing works form a Console App

We are consuming WCF service from a console application with NetworkCredential(UserName && PWD) ,WSHTTPBinding.
When we call Service from Azure PAAS Service , we land into issue The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Negotiate'. The authentication header received from the server was 'Negotiate,NTLM'.
The Client Config for both PAAS Consumer, Console app looks exactly same. Not sure why the error is seen only in case of PAAS Consumer.
The reason is because the PaaS service is not in the same network of your WCF service or the credentials you're using are not valid.
For example:
you're using a valid / existing credential from your company network locally:
CONTOSO\thdotnet
When publishing to Azure and trying to use the same credentials it will fail unless you're using a VPN to allow your PAAS app to call the servers running in your company's network.

Can you tell if an API request hasn't come through Azure API Management?

I have an API that runs on an Azure app service which is exposed through Azure API Management. Is there a way to tell if any requests are hitting the app service URL directly without going through the API Management service?
In my opinion, apim can't record those requests which hitting the app service url directly because these requests have no relationship with apim. If you want to record these requests, you need to modify the api in your code.
For example, you can add a parameter with a specific value in api management and when your code recieve this parameter, you can check the value to know if it comes from apim.
I assume that you want to prevent calling the app service url directly. So I suggest you adding White list on your server so that only apim request can visit your server.
For adding access restriction, if you're using azure app service, you can learn about this ms document.
I believe if you were to enabled Application Insights on both the API Management and APP Service you can view the requests on Application Insights for the APP Service to tell which ones were direct calls and which ones came from API Management.

Does Azure App service communicate internally without going out through Application Gateway

I have Azure App Services behind the Azure Application Gateway/Firewall. There are few application that talks between them. Does that applications talk internally(using xxx.azurewebsites.net) or they talk with public domain(mydomain.com)?
Also, how to check these things in logs.
Current configuration:
HTTPSettings: Pick hostname from the backend address has checked.
Probes: pick hostname from backend https settings has checked.
To answer your question, No if your applications are inside azure's network, it usually wont go through the public domain. But it will go through the firewall/gateways and follow the same networking restriction you have defined.
What logs you want to check? if you want to see the application event logs you can do it using scm. You can access it via Diagnostics/Advanced Tools in your azure app services.
You can enable Access Logs in the Application gateway to see all the request that hits Application Gateway. It has the hostname field where you can check how the site is being accessed.
Let me know if you have any further questions.

Azure Application Gateway with App Service Web App

I have created an application gateway with WAF (default detection mode) in an Azure Resource Group (no ASE) with an App Service Web App backendPool member/target MS link (followed instructions to the letter both via the Azure Portal and via PowerShell).
Im not using any custom domains, just the basic config with my backendPool member being an Azure Web App ie mywebapp.azurewebsites.net (Web App is a basic ASP.NET test site which runs fine on its .azurewebsites.net address).
MS application gateway documentation states they now support App Services as backendPool targets (FQDN/which I use).
My basic httpSettings, basic listener and rule are all setup correctly as far as Im aware (HTTP port 80.
So in essence my app gateway should listen on port 80 of the public IP attached to it and forward any incoming requests to the backendPool member (Web App).
But when I try to access the gateways public IP (or DNS address) I keep getting an 'Azure 404 Web Site not found.' page/error.
Strangely if I stop the Web App from the Azure portal I get a 502/bad gateway error until I restart the Web App where the 404 page returns.
I dont know if Im missing anything here? Does anyone have any suggestions at all? I cannot seem to get this working.
You probably are missing a couple of configuration elements. Backend http settings should require 'PickHostNameFromBackendAddress' flag. You should also use a custom probe which has 'PickHostNameFromBackendHttpSettings' flag set. The end to end PowerShell documentation is at link which details your scenario.

Azure - Making an API App available to a Logic App

I've created a web application API with a swagger interface that I've deployed as an API App to Azure.
When creating a Logic App I can find my API App but whenever I try to use it I get the following error:
Failed to fetch swagger. Ensure you have CORS enabled on the endpoint
and are calling an HTTPS endpoint.
I'm using the default https url for the API definition in the API App:
https://microsoft-SOME-LONG-MS-INTERNAL-ID.azurewebsites.net/swagger/docs/v1
The swagger docs have been provided in my C# web API application through Swashbuckle.
For CORS I've set a single * item.
This didn't seem sufficient for the Logic App to access the API App I then configured Authentication / Authorization for the API App to use Azure Active Directory (express), creating an AD Azure App.
I believe the issue will be one of configuring security which is all pretty new to me in Azure. I'd like to make the API App inaccessible externally, but available to Web Apps and Logic Apps within my Azure subscription.
I've not added any authentication mechanism to the ASP.NET web application itself as I figured the web application would effectively be sitting in a private network on Azure. Perhaps this is a bad assumption and I need to add authentication to allow Azure AD to work?
Any pointers / suggestions?
Turns out I needed to update the Azure SDK for Visual Studio. I had an older version that was deploying a preview Api App which resulted in a "Api app host" type being deployed rather that an "API app" type.
Everything works after the update and I've found some documentation for securing the API App and making it available in the Logic App - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-logic-custom-hosted-api/

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