Re:Hosting Jupyter Notebooks for 100k Users [video]
by gardnerjr on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:40PM
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wow, a link to my blog (that second link) made hackernews? that's exciting!
Anyway, yeah, workbooks in appinsights is almost like notebooks for non-programmers? kinda? you string together markdown, parameters, and analytics queries (and very soon metrics across more of azure) into reports. But the parameters stuff lets you do more interactive things to hide/show sections now. i really need to do a new blog post about all the new stuff that's in there that wasn't last june!
i've prototyped some stuff to export an AI workbook to an azure/jupyter notebook, as there's some support for querying analytics already from a python package. there just hasn't been enough demand for it so far (not as much as we expected, anyway?)
Have you seen Application Insights Workbooks [0]? Basically you can have interactive notebooks and run analytics queries against your telemetry, generate charts, add text cells, etc. It's picking up usage for investigating outages, e.g., have a Workbook with a query that looks at your dependency calls and determine what service is failing + produce a visualization.
Workbooks don't actually execute any external actions, though. It's solely an analysis tool. Runbooks skew the other direction, they are for executing scripts (more or less).
Jupyter/python seems to fit in a nice gap where this could be bridged, especially with the level of existing python support from azure sdk + cli.
PS: a dev from Workbooks has seen Azure Notebooks, and was curious a while back about how he could integrate the functionality [1]
[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/... [1]: http://blog.my-is300.com/2017/06/what-i-work-on-application-...