Azure Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps is a cloud-based platform provided by Microsoft as part of the Azure suite of services. It allows users to automate workflows and integrate different applications, data sources, and services across cloud and on-premises environments without having to write extensive code. Business users can focus more on designing and implementing their solution's business logic and functionality, while spending less energy on figuring out how to access their resources.

Logic Apps bring speed and scalability into the enterprise integration space, it provides a way to simplify and implement scalable integrations and workflows in the cloud. Let us consider a scenario where an organization is managing the social media presence of a company and want to monitor brand mentions on various platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. They also want to analyze the sentiment of these mentions and respond appropriately in real-time to maintain brand reputation.

In such case, they can use triggers specific to each social media platform to start the workflow whenever there's a new mention or post related to their brand. And connect to Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics API using a connector to perform sentiment analysis on the content of the social media mentions. Users can monitor the sentiment analysis and response workflow using BizTalk360 Azure Monitoring to track performance metrics such as response time, sentiment trends, and engagement levels. 

Considering the importance of Logic Apps, BizTalk360 offers out-of-box Azure Logic Apps Operations capabilities. Using this feature you can Operate, Manage, and Monitor Azure Logic Apps from a single place.

View Logic Apps from BizTalk360

To manage Azure Logic Apps via BizTalk360, users need to first add their respective Azure subscriptions. Take a look into this article to know how to add azure subscriptions. Users have the flexibility to add multiple Azure subscriptions as well.

Once added, these subscriptions are listed in a dropdown menu. Users can effortlessly switch between subscriptions to manage their Azure Logic Apps. 

• The logic apps are displayed based on the selected subscription in the dropdown menu, showcasing their name, resource group, access endpoint, status and last run time.
• Select the logic from the list and click on the eye icon to view the logic app details. 
• The logic app details blade includes displays the basic information like the Resource Group, Location, Subscription Name, and the Last Run Date. 
• Additionally run history, trigger history, graph view and detailed view of logic app runs and triggers is also listed. For each Logic App, Run and Trigger history will maintain the last 30 records. 
• The rich query filter capability allows the user to filter the query based on Logic App Name, Status, Resource group. Save the query and pin for quick access.

Manage Logic Apps from BizTalk360

Within BizTalk360, you have the capability to execute a range of operations on Logic Apps, applying them to individual logic apps or multiple logic apps simultaneously. Here's how you can perform these operations:

• Enable - This operation activates a disabled Logic App, allowing it to execute according to its defined workflow when triggered.
• Disable - Conversely, this operation deactivates a Logic App, preventing it from executing its workflow when triggered.
• Run Trigger - This operation manually triggers the Logic App's workflow. This can be useful for instances where you need to initiate the workflow outside of its normal trigger conditions. 
• Delete - Users can delete single or multiple Logic Apps with a single click from BizTalk360, which deletes the Logic App in the respective Azure Subscription. 
• Resubmit Runs - Users can resubmit a single or multiple runs by clicking the Resubmit button.

Access and Security 

• All state change operations and message processing actions executed by users are systematically recorded and audited within the Governance and Audit section. 
• By default, Super users are granted with the ability to manage logic apps within BizTalk360.
• For Normal Users / NT Group Users, the following access permissions are necessary to manage logic apps:
  1. Azure Service Access: Required to view the logic apps.
  2. Manage Logic Apps Permission: Essential for managing the state of logic apps and triggering runs within them.