Installing Azure Webhook Infrastructure

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Last updated: Mar 01, 2022 by Abirami
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Azure webhook infrastructure for high availability of the webhook functionality that means if Insights is down for sometime, payloads from devops tools should not be missed.

Official Link – portal.azure.com

Step - by - step guide on how to Install Azure Webhook Infrastructure

  • Fill the required details in all the given tabs (Basic, Networking…etc.) and click on Review + create.

    1. Basics

      1. Choose Subscription and Resource Group.

      2. Storage account name: insightswebhookstorage.

      3. Account kind: StorageV2

      4. Leave Replication as it is.

      5. Access Tier: Hot

 

  • After clicking create button, a new page will be opened where you can see your storage account deployment. Deployment will take approx. 1 minutes to complete.

  • After completing deployment, click on Go to Resource button to go inside storage account.

  • Click on containers tab in the overview section or select from left menu.

  • Create 3 new containers by click on + container button with names:

    1. insightswebhookevents

    2. insightsfailedwebhookevents

    3. insightsfunctionapp

Select Public access level as Container for all the containers.

 

  • Click on 3 dots given on the right side and then click on Access policy to create policy.

 

  • Click on + Add Policy button under stored access policy and fill the details to create policy as follows:

    • Fill Identifier as Insights(You may change)

    • Select all permissions.

    • Select start time and end time.

    • Click OK button.

    • After clicking OK, Click on Save button to save policy.

    • Repeat these steps for all containers.

  • Download the zip file from the nexus repository(PlatformInsightsAzureWebhook.zip) to your local system.

  • Follow the steps to upload zip file into the container:

    • Click on functionapp container to go inside container.

    • Click on upload button.

    • Select the zip file from the local system.

    • Select checkbox Overwrite if files already exist.

    • Click on advanced and change the Blob type to Block Blob and Block size to 100 MB.

    • Click on Upload button.

 

  • Click on the zip filename and copy the URL from the overview section and paste it in notepad.

  • Click on containers from the left menu and copy the names of the two container i.e. insightswebhookevents and failedwebhookevents and paste it on notepad.

  • Go to insightswebhookstorage storage account.

    • Click on Properties under settings in the left menu and copy the value of Primary Blob Service Endpoint and paste it on notepad.

       

    • Click on Access Keys under settings in the left menu and copy the value of storage account name and Key of Key1 and paste it on notepad.

  • Make sure you have 6 values present somewhere as shown in the below image

  • Fill the required details:

    • Basics

      • Choose Subscription and Resource Group.

      • Function App name: InsightsWebhookHandler

      • Publish: Code

      • Runtime stack: Java

      • Choose Region where your storage account is created.

    • Monitoring

      • Select insightswebhookstorage option in Storage account.

      • Operating System: Windows

      • Choose Plan type as per needs.

    • Monitoring

      • Enable Application Insights: Yes

      • Application Insights: Create New

    • Click on Review+ Create button and then review the filled details and click on create.

    • After clicking create button, a new page will be opened where you can see your function app deployment. Deployment will take approx. 2-3 minutes to complete.

    • After completing deployment, click on Go to Resource button to go inside function app.

    • Please reference to the images given below:

 

  • Click on configuration under configured features

  • Click on + New application setting button

 

  • Fill the name and values and click OK. Repeat this step for all the values of the table given below and click on Save button.

  • Copy the values from the notepad we stored before while setting up azure storage.

Note: Please do not change the Application Setting Name while adding application settings.

Name

Value

Name

Value

1

WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE

<Zip_URL>

2

StorageEndpoint

< Blob Service Endpoint>

3

StorageAccountName

< Storage account name>

4

StorageAccountKey

< Key>

5

WebhookEventContainer

< WebhookEventContainer>

6

FailedEventContainer

< FailedEventContainer>

7

TimerInterval(Every One Hour)

0 0 * * * *

 

 

  • Fill the required details and click create button.

  • Click on APIs link from left menu.

  • Click on +Add API link and click on Function App from the given templates.

  • Follow the steps to create API:–

    • Select function app.

      • Click on browse.

      • Click on Function App

      • Select function and click select on right bottom.

      • Click select on left bottom to return to API configuration page.

         

    • Change the API URL suffix to “function”

    • Click create button.

  • Click on InsightsWebhookHandler API and then click on POST operation (automatically added) under all operations. After that, Post operation will be shown in the Frontend section.

  • Click on the highlighted part given in the image.

  • Click on Query tab and then click on + Add parameter link.

    • name = endpoint

    • Type = string

    • Tick Required checkbox

    • Click on Save button

  • Go to Settings tab in the API and unselect Subscription required and click Save button.

  • Copy the webhook url provided by Insights Application by clicking on the highlighted part and keep it somewhere in notepad.

 

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