The Techorama conferences are most certainly best of breed when it comes to tech conferences in Europe. This year I was fortuante to speak at Techorama Belgium 2025 about brand hew Microsoft features that are (finally) in public preview. My session was “Application Centric Observability in the Cloud”.

I have been following the Azure Monitoring team for a very long time, in fact since it was started quite a few years ago in 2018 at Microsoft Ignite.

The news I spoke about consist of two things: 1) Service Groups a new Core Azure Platform governance feature. This allows you to group together instances of resources and relate them to one another in a diagram. This information is then persisted to the Azure Platform and for the first time Azure now understands what resources makes up your application for you. 2) Azure Monitoring Health Models are built to use the new Service Groups feature. The Health Model understands what your application Service Group is and can help you monitor and undrestand any application problems.

I have spoken about Monitoring in Azure for a long time. Trying to remember for how long, I came across this old presentation deck where I, lo and behold, spoke about several things including... Monitoring!

It was  an absolute pleasure to speak at Techorama, I recommend it to anyone, and I hope to speak there again in the future.

My speaker profile at Techorama Belgium 2025: