I'm playing around with creating a Pub/Sub system using Azure Service Bus Topics and an Azure Function app where the functions are decorated with ServiceBusTrigger. I'm using the standard tier for Service Bus and Consumption Plan for the Function app.
The concept is working fine and will serve my purposes, however, I'm having difficulty understanding how this will affect my Azure costs.
Running just one function with that attribute seems to generate a couple request per second to the Service Bus. In the end, I expect to have quite a few Topics with Subscriptions and an Azure Function for each Subscription.
If I understand correctly, each of the requests that the ServiceBusTrigger generates counts against the number of Service Bus operations you get. With a few functions, I'll go over 13M ops pretty easily.
Some of these subscribers aren't so time sensitive that they'd need to check the Subscription several times per second. Is there a way to change the frequency that ServiceBusTrigger checks the Subscription to reduce costs? Am I approaching this problem from entirely the wrong angle?
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I have multiple WebApi that are hosted in Azure but some of the API taking a long time to process.
Instead of a calling from the scheduler function in Azure, I was advised to use the Messaging Queue.
Is this a good approach?
Also, let say my API URL.. https://testwebapi.net/api1 and https://testwebapi.net/api2, how can we communicate these API using Message queue and also how to call the WebAPI individually from Messaging Queue?
Is this Azure Bus service is the same as Messaging Queue for Azure.
I would strongly recommend you look at the respective docs on Azure, and start doing some quick tutorials and post more specific questions.
Now, to answer, what I believe is your main question, Azure Bus Service and Messaging Queue.
The thing is, there is no one Messaging Queue, rather three options for Azure messaging - Service Bus, Event Grid, and Event Hubs. Also, there is something called 'Azure Queue Storage', but I dont think you are thinking of that, considering your context.
There is a very cool comparison chart available here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-grid/compare-messaging-services
But, I think, my guess, is you are looking for ultimately looking to use Azure Service Bus.
Also, please understand that one does not invalidate the other. As your project develops, you may end up using Azure Service Bus with other options like Event Hubs or Grids or all of them in different places.
Also, you keep using the incorrect terms. for example, you say 'Azure Bus service' but its really 'Azure Service Bus'. Also, there is no thing called 'Messaging Queue for Azure.' as there are so many different messaging services for Azure. This is what I want to add here. Spent some time with the docs and post more specific questions as you continue your project.
I am trying to read messages from a service bus queue using logic app. I do not find any documentation on how the logic app will scale based on the number of messages in the queue. Any help or pointer very much appreciated.
Right now, the answer is...it just does. Meaning, unless you are using a singleton LogicApp, Azure will spin up as many LogicApp instances as needed.
In other words, yes, it scales based on demand using any Trigger, not just Service Bus.
Consequently, there is no built in way to limit the number of instances.
I'm struggling at understanding if and what needs to be done to provide for high availability of two different types of Azure resources:
Azure Service Bus
Function Apps
Service Bus guarantee at least 99.9% of the time for most of the service (includes Relay, Queues and Topics, Notification Hubs). Besides, replication and partitioning messaging entities (Each partitioned queue or topic consists of multiple fragments. Each fragment is stored in a different messaging store. If the corresponding messaging store is unavailable, Service Bus writes the message to a different fragment, if possible.) could be used as common solution for high availability.
The following article would be helpful, please read it.
High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Azure Service
Bus
For Function Apps running on App Service Plans Microsoft guarantee that the associated Functions compute will be available 99.95% of the time. So if possible, you could run your Function App on an App Service Plan and enable the Always On setting.
I'm simply trying to work out how best to retrieve messages as quickly as possible from an Azure Service Bus Queue.
I was shocked that there wasn't some way to properly subscribe to the queue for notifications and that I'm going to have to poll. (unless I'm wrong in which case the documentation is terrible).
I got long polling working, but checking a single message every 60 seconds looks like it'll cost around £900 per month (again, unless I've misunderstood that). And if I add a redundant/second service to poll it'll double.
So I'm wondering what the best/most cost efficient way of doing it is.
Essentially I just want to take a message from the queue, perform an API lookup on some internally held data (perhaps using hybrid services?) and then perhaps post a message back to a different queue with some additional information .
I looked at worker roles(?) -- is that something that could do it?
I should mention that I've been looking at doing this with node.js.
Check out these videos from Scott Hanselman and Mark Simms on Azure Queues.
It's C# but you get the idea.
https://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=azure%20queues%20simms#ch9Search
Touches on:
Storage Queues vs. Service Bus Queues
Grabbing messages in bulk vs. one by one (chunky vs. chatty)
Dealing with poison messages (bad actors)
Misc implementation details
Much more stuff i can't remember now
As for your compute, you can either do a VM, a Worker Role (Cloud Services), App Service Webjobs, or Azure Functions.
The Webjobs SDK and Azure Functions bot have a way to subscribe to Queue events (notify on message).
(Listed from IaaS to PaaS to FaaS - Azure Functions - if such a thing exists).
Azure Functions already has sample code provided as templates to do all that with Node. Just make a new Function and follow the wizard.
If you need to touch data on-prem you either need to look at integrating with a VNET that has site-to-site connectivity back to your prem, or Hybrid Connections (App Service only!). Azure Functions can't do that yet, but every other compute is a go.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-hybrid-connection-get-started/
(That tutorial is Windows only but you can pull data from any OS. The Hybrid Connection Manager has to live on a Windows box, but then it acts as a reverse proxy to any host on your network).
To deal with Azure ServiceBus Queue easily, the best option seems to be Azure Webjob.
There is a ServiceBusTrigger that allows you to get messages from an Azure ServiceBus queue.
For node.js integration, you should have a look at Azure Function. It is built on top of the webjob SDK and have node.js integration :
Azure Functions NodeJS developer reference
Azure Functions Service Bus triggers and bindings for queues and topics
In the second article, there is an example on how get messages from a queue using Azure Function and nodejs :
module.exports = function(context, myQueueItem) {
context.log('Node.js ServiceBus queue trigger function processed message', myQueueItem);
context.done();
};
I have been researching on Microsoft Azure Event Hubs. My goal is to figure out a way to provide automatic scalability. This is a experimental work and I am really only trying to know what can I do with Azure event hubs. I do not have access to the Azure platform to test test anything :( .
Well, so far, I found that through REST API and Service Bus Powershell I can add Throughput Units (to increase performance - I am relying on this: Scale Azure Service Bus through Powershell or API) and increase or decrease Event's Expiration time (which might influence capacity - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn790675.aspx).
The problem is that, presuming that the previous techniques work and I am able to scale event hubs' performance automatically, I still need a way to know when to trigger scalability mechanisms. To know when and how to trigger scalability, I need to work on some functions that rely upon the event hub's metrics (or a way to monitoring it). The problem is that I can't really find any metrics. The only thing that I find is this: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-how-to-monitor/ - Which actually does not solve my problem because although it may present some interesting metrics, it does not serve the purposes of my "application" (which will come if I can prove that I can successfully scale Azure automatically); and this Azure service bus statistics/Monitoring - which's links are not working.
Surely I can find more information about Service Bus Explorer, and surely it may provide some interesting insights over the event hub metrics, I am just wondering if there is something like this: https://github.com/HBOCodeLabs/incubator-storm/blob/master/STORM-UI-REST-API.md that allow me to access some kind of metrics, rather than creating my own metrics
Thanks in advance
Best regards
You can retrieve metrics about Event Hubs (an Event Hub is a Service Bus Entity) using the Service Bus Entity Metrics REST APIs(https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/dn163589.aspx). Using this you can retrieve the same metrics displayed in the portal such as:
Number of incoming messages
Incoming throughput
Outgoing throughput
These should help you determine when you need to scale your application up or down.
This video is useful for getting started https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Subscribe/Service-Bus-Namespace-Management-and-Analytics
If 3rd party services are an option, look into CloudMonix # http://cloudmonix.com
It can monitor Event Hubs (among gazillion other Azure-related things) and execute Azure Automation runbooks (among gazillion other actions) as a reaction to load conditions/throughout of a whole hub or individual partitions and optionally based on any other metrics in your environment.
Your Azure Automation runbooks could have the logic to execute increases in your EH's throughout, etc.
Disclaimer: I'm affiliated with the product.
HTH
Service Bus Explorer is great. I actually use this.
ServiceBus Explorer