When building a microservice application consisting of many distributed Azure services that communicate with each other, it is vital to have a mechanism that supports observing and tracing the request flow from end to end.

Understanding this, Azure offers native tools like Application Insights to achieve distributed tracing. They help to log and track how a request flow performs through Azure services.

This article dives deep into the significance of distributed tracing, how it can be attained using Application Insights, their pros/cons, and an out-of-the-box BAM solution to get started with.

By default, the Azure Static Web Apps environments are publicly accessible. Microsoft is soon making these environments secure by introducing an option to set a password to it. Once added, visitors will require to enter that password before viewing the app.

Password protection is a user-friendly feature that provides a low level of security. It can be used in addition to Static Web Apps Authentication. To learn how to enable password protection on your Azure Static Web Apps environments, continue reading further.

Do you know that you can logically organize your Azure resources by category? Once you login to Microsoft Azure portal, you can categorize them by using Tags. Tags enable you to retrieve related resources from different Resource Groups.

To know how to organize Azure resources using tags, let's discuss this in today's post as part of my Azure Tips and Tricks series.

Have you heard about Global Directory and Subscription Filter on the Microsoft Azure Portal? This filter allows you to select a set of Azure Subscriptions and save them as default Azure subscriptions. Using this, you will be able to better manage your resources online.

If you didn't hear about this subscription filtering yet, we are going to quickly discuss about it in today's Azure Tips and Tricks post.

While working with Azure Resources, you may ask the question: "Can I move an Azure Resource from one Resource Group to another Resource Group?". If that's your question, the answer is 'Yes, you can change the Resource Group'.

In this quick tip, we will learn how to achieve this from the Microsoft Azure Portal. Continue reading to know more.

If you are using Microsoft Azure Portal, you may already know how to change the theme of the portal. This can be done from the Azure Portal Settings itself, which provides you four different themes at this moment.

But, do you know that you can easily switch from one theme to the other without navigating to the portal settings? In this quick tip, we are going to discuss about it.

Microsoft Azure allows you to easily move Azure Resources from one Subscription to the other, if they are under the same account. You can use the Azure Portal to quickly perform this operation. Today, in this article we will learn how to do this.

Just follow the step-by-step process mentioned in this article to move Azure Resources from one subscription to the other.