Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - November 2025
In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month Novembers’s Ace Aviator: Al Ghoniem What's your role and title? What are your responsibilities? As a Senior Integration Consultant, I design and deliver enterprise-grade integration on Microsoft Azure, primarily using Logic Apps Standard, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid and Azure Functions. My remit covers reference architectures, “golden” templates, governance and FinOps guardrails, CI/CD automation (Bicep and YAML), and production-ready patterns for reliability, observability and cost efficiency. Alongside my technical work, I lead teams of consultants and engineers, helping them adopt standardised delivery models, mentor through code reviews and architectural walkthroughs, and ensure we deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes across projects. I also help teams apply decisioning patterns (embedded versus external rules) and integrate AI responsibly within enterprise workflows. Can you give us some insights into your day-to-day activities and what a typical day in your role looks like? Architecture and patterns: refining solution designs, sequence diagrams and rules models for new and existing integrations. Build and automation: evolving reusable Logic App Standard templates, Bicep modules and pipelines, embedding monitoring, alerts and identity-first security. Problem-solving: addressing performance tuning, transient fault handling, poison/DLQ flows and “design for reprocessing.” Leadership and enablement: mentoring consultants, facilitating technical discussions, and ensuring knowledge is shared across teams. Community and writing: publishing articles and examples to demystify real-world integration trade-offs. What motivates and inspires you to be an active member of the Aviators/Microsoft community? The community continuously turns hard-won lessons into reusable practices. Sharing patterns (and anti-patterns) saves others time and incidents, while learning from peers strengthens my own work. Microsoft’s product teams also listen closely, and seeing customer feedback directly shape the platform is genuinely rewarding. Looking back, what advice do you wish you had been given earlier that you'd now share with those looking to get into STEM/technology? Optimise for learning speed, not titles. Choose problems that stretch you and deliver in small, measurable increments. Master the fundamentals. Naming, idempotency, retries and observability are not glamorous but make systems dependable. Document everything. Diagrams, runbooks and ADRs multiply your impact. Understand trade-offs. Every decision buys something and costs something; acknowledge both sides clearly. Value collaboration over heroics. Ask questions, share knowledge and give credit freely. What has helped you grow professionally? Reusable scaffolding: creating golden templates and reference repositories that capture best practice once and reuse it everywhere. Feedback loops: leveraging telemetry, post-incident reviews and peer critique to improve. Teaching and mentoring: explaining concepts to others brings clarity and strengthens leadership. Cross-disciplinary curiosity: combining architecture, DevOps, FinOps and AI to address problems holistically. If you had a magic wand that could create a feature in Logic Apps, what would it be and why? "Stateful Sessions and Decisions” as a first-class capability: Built-in session state across multiple workflows, durable correlation and resumable orchestrations without external storage. A native decisioning activity with versioned decision tables and rule auditing (“why this rule fired”). A local-first developer experience with fast testing and contract validation for confident iteration. This would simplify complex, human-in-the-loop and event-driven scenarios, reduce custom plumbing, and make advanced orchestration patterns accessible to a wider audience. News from our product group Logic Apps Community Day 2025 Did you miss or want to catch up again on your favorite Logic Apps Community Day videos – jump back into action on this four hours long learning session, with 10 sessions from our Community Experts. And stay tuned for individual sessions being shared throughout the week. Announcing Parse & Chunk with Metadata in Logic Apps: Build Context-Aware RAG Agents New Parse & Chunk actions add metadata like page numbers and sentence completeness—perfect for context-aware document Q&A using Azure AI Search and Agent Loop. Introducing the RabbitMQ Connector (Public Preview) The new connector (Public Preview) lets you send and receive messages with RabbitMQ in Logic Apps Standard and Hybrid—ideal for scalable, reliable messaging across industries. News from our community EventGrid And Entra Auth In Logic Apps Standard Post by Riccardo Viglianisi Learn how to use Entra Auth for webhook authentication, ditch SAS tokens, and configure private endpoints with public access rules—perfect for secure, scalable integrations. Debugging XSLT Made Easy in VS Code: .NET-Based Debugging for Logic Apps Post by Daniel Jonathan A new .NET-based extension brings real debugging to XSLT for Logic Apps. Set breakpoints, step through transformations, and inspect variables—making XSLT development clear and productive. This is the 3 rd post in a 5 part series, so worth checking out the other posts too. Modifying the Logic App Azure Workbook: Custom Views for Multi Workflow Monitoring Post by Jeff Wessling Learn how to tailor dashboards with KQL, multi-workflow views, and context panes—boosting visibility, troubleshooting speed, and operational efficiency across your integrations. Azure AI Agents in Logic Apps: A Guide to Automate Decisions Post by Imashi Kinigama Discover how GPT-powered agents, created using Logic Apps Agent Loop, automate decisions, extract data, and adapt in real time. Build intelligent workflows with minimal effort—no hardcoding, just instructions and tools. How to Turn Logic App Connectors into MCP Servers (Step-by-Step Guide) Post by Stephen W. Thomas Learn how to expose connectors like Google Drive or Salesforce as MCP endpoints using Azure API Center—giving AI agents secure, real-time access to 1,400+ services directly from VS Code. Custom SAP MCP Server with Logic Apps Post by Sebastian Meyer Learn how to turn Logic Apps into AI-accessible tools using MCP. From workflow descriptions to Easy Auth setup and VS Code integration—this guide unlocks SAP automation with Copilot. How Azure Logic Apps as MCP Servers Accelerate AI Agent Development Post by Monisha S Turn 1,400+ connectors into AI tools with Logic Apps Standard. Build agents fast, integrate with legacy systems, and scale intelligent workflows across your organization. Designing Business Rules in Azure Logic Apps: When to Go Embedded vs External Post by Al Ghoniem Learn when to use Logic Apps' native Rules Engine or offload to Azure Functions with NRules or JSON RulesEngine. Discover hybrid patterns for scalable, testable decision automation. Syncing SharePoint with Azure Blob Storage using Logic Apps & Azure Functions for Azure AI Search Post by Daniel Jonathan Solve folder delete issues by tagging blobs with SharePoint metadata. Use Logic Apps and a custom Azure Function to clean up orphaned files and keep Azure AI Search in sync. Step-by-Step Guide: Building a Conversational Agent in Azure Logic Apps Post by Stephen W. Thomas Use Azure AI Foundry and Logic Apps Standard to create chatbots that shuffle cards, answer questions, and embed into websites—no code required, just smart workflows and EasyAuth. You can hide sensitive data from the Logic App run history Post by Francisco Leal Learn how to protect sensitive data like authentication tokens, credentials, and personal information in Logic App, so this data don’t appear in the run history, which could pose security and privacy risks.Python + IA: Resumen y Recursos
Acabamos de concluir nuestra serie sobre Python + IA, un recorrido completo de nueve sesiones donde exploramos a fondo cómo usar modelos de inteligencia artificial generativa desde Python. Durante la serie presentamos varios tipos de modelos, incluyendo LLMs, modelos de embeddings y modelos de visión. Profundizamos en técnicas populares como RAG, tool calling y salidas estructuradas. Evaluamos la calidad y seguridad de la IA mediante evaluaciones automatizadas y red-teaming. Finalmente, desarrollamos agentes de IA con frameworks populares de Python y exploramos el nuevo Model Context Protocol (MCP). Para que puedas aplicar lo aprendido, todos nuestros ejemplos funcionan con GitHub Models, un servicio que ofrece modelos gratuitos a todos los usuarios de GitHub para experimentación y aprendizaje. Aunque no hayas asistido a las sesiones en vivo, ¡todavía puedes acceder a todos los materiales usando los enlaces de abajo! Si eres instructor, puedes usar las diapositivas y el código en tus propias clases. Python + IA: Modelos de Lenguaje Grandes (LLMs) 📺 Ver grabación En esta sesión exploramos los LLMs, los modelos que impulsan ChatGPT y GitHub Copilot. Usamos Python con paquetes como OpenAI SDK y LangChain, experimentamos con prompt engineering y ejemplos few-shot, y construimos una aplicación completa basada en LLMs. También explicamos la importancia de la concurrencia y el streaming en apps de IA. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/llms Código: python-openai-demos Guía de repositorio: video Python + IA: Embeddings Vectoriales 📺 Ver grabación En nuestra segunda sesión, aprendemos sobre los modelos de embeddings vectoriales, que convierten texto o imágenes en arreglos numéricos. Comparamos métricas de distancia, aplicamos cuantización y experimentamos con modelos multimodales. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/embeddings Código: vector-embedding-demos Guía de repositorio: video Python + IA: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) 📺 Ver grabación Descubrimos cómo usar RAG para mejorar las respuestas de los LLMs añadiendo contexto relevante. Construimos flujos RAG en Python con distintas fuentes (CSVs, sitios web, documentos y bases de datos) y terminamos con una aplicación completa basada en Azure AI Search. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/rag Código: python-openai-demos Guía de repositorio: video Python + IA: Modelos de Visión 📺 Ver grabación Los modelos de visión aceptan texto e imágenes, como GPT-4o y GPT-4o mini. Creamos una app de chat con imágenes, realizamos extracción de datos y construimos un motor de búsqueda multimodal. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/vision Código: vector-embeddings Guía de repositorio: video Python + IA: Salidas Estructuradas 📺 Ver grabación Aprendemos a generar respuestas estructuradas con LLMs usando Pydantic BaseModel. Este enfoque permite validación automática de los resultados, útil para extracción de entidades, clasificación y flujos de agentes. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/salidas Código: python-openai-demos y entity-extraction-demos Guía de repositorio: video Python + IA: Calidad y Seguridad 📺 Ver grabación Analizamos cómo usar la IA de forma segura y cómo evaluar la calidad de las respuestas. Mostramos cómo configurar Azure AI Content Safety y usar el Azure AI Evaluation SDK para medir resultados de los modelos. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/calidad Código: ai-quality-safety-demos Guía de repositorio: video Python + IA: Tool Calling 📺 Ver grabación Exploramos el tool calling, base para crear agentes de IA. Definimos herramientas con esquemas JSON y funciones Python, manejamos llamadas paralelas y flujos iterativos. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/herramientas Código: python-openai-demos Guía de repositorio: video Python + IA: Agentes de IA 📺 Ver grabación Creamos agentes de IA con frameworks como el agent-framework de Microsoft y LangGraph, mostrando arquitecturas con múltiples herramientas, supervisores y flujos con intervención humana. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/agentes Código: python-ai-agents-demos Guía de repositorio: video Python + IA: Model Context Protocol (MCP) 📺 Ver grabación Cerramos la serie con MCP (Model Context Protocol), la tecnología más innovadora de 2025. Mostramos cómo usar el SDK de FastMCP en Python para crear un servidor MCP local, conectarlo a GitHub Copilot, construir un cliente MCP y conectar frameworks como LangGraph y agent-framework. También discutimos los riesgos de seguridad asociados. Diapositivas: aka.ms/pythonia/diapositivas/mcp Código: python-ai-mcp-demos Guía de repositorio: video Además Si tienen preguntas, por favor, en el canal #Espanol en nuestro Discord: https://aka.ms/pythonia/discord Todos los jueves tengo office hours: https://aka.ms/pythonia/horas Encuentra más tutoriales 100% en español sobre Python + AI en https://youtube.com/@lagpsAzure Free Tier & Cost Management Learn Azure Without Spending a Dime
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Logic Flow name in Azure Log Analytics
dependencies | where type == "Ajax" | where success == "False" | where name has "logicflows" | project timestamp, name, resultCode, duration, type, target, data, operation_Name, appName | order by timestamp desc This KQL query in Azure Application Insights> Azure Log Analytics is used to get errors for logicflows. It returns the data but, I cannot see the logicflow name or ID anywhere. Is there any way to fetch logicflow ID? The azure app insight is registered for a power app, where we are using automate flows to call apis. We need the flow's name in analytics. I tried looking the database, there is no field for logic flow's name or ID. Though when seen in user>sessions, it shows name in requestHeaders.How Azure Organizes Resources Subscriptions, Resource Groups, and Management Groups
When you start using Microsoft Azure for deploying applications or managing cloud infrastructure, understanding how Azure organizes its resources is fundamental. Azure provides a structured hierarchy—Management Groups, Subscriptions, and Resource Groups—that helps you manage, secure, and govern your resources effectively. Think of it like this: your Azure environment is a large, well-organized digital enterprise. Management Groups are the corporate headquarters, Subscriptions are individual departments, and Resource Groups are teams within those departments working on specific projects. In this blog, we’ll explore in detail how each of these levels functions, how they relate to each other, and how you can use them to streamline governance, billing, and access management in Azure. https://dellenny.com/how-azure-organizes-resources-subscriptions-resource-groups-and-management-groups-explained/🎉Join the Microsoft Ignite 2025 NYC Community Summit in Times Square!
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More often than we want to admit, customers frequently come to us with cases where a Consumption logic app was unintentionally deleted. Although you can somewhat easily recover a deleted Standard logic app, you can't get the run history back nor do the triggers use the same URL. However, for a Consumption logic app, this process is much more difficult and might not always work correctly. The definition for a Consumption logic app isn't stored in any accessible Azure storage account, nor can you run PowerShell cmdlets for recovery.Introducing langchain-azure-storage: Azure Storage integrations for LangChain
We're excited to introduce langchain-azure-storage , the first official Azure Storage integration package built by Microsoft for LangChain 1.0. As part of its launch, we've built a new Azure Blob Storage document loader (currently in public preview) that improves upon prior LangChain community implementations. This new loader unifies both blob and container level access, simplifying loader integration. More importantly, it offers enhanced security through default OAuth 2.0 authentication, supports reliably loading millions to billions of documents through efficient memory utilization, and allows pluggable parsing, so you can leverage other document loaders to parse specific file formats. What are LangChain document loaders? A typical Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline follows these main steps: Collect source content (PDFs, DOCX, Markdown, CSVs) — often stored in Azure Blob Storage. Parse into text and associated metadata (i.e., represented as LangChain Document objects). Chunk + embed those documents and store in a vector store (e.g., Azure AI Search, Postgres pgvector, etc.). At query time, retrieve the most relevant chunks and feed them to an LLM as grounded context. LangChain document loaders make steps 1–2 turnkey and consistent so the rest of the stack (splitters, vector stores, retrievers) “just works”. See this LangChain RAG tutorial for a full example of these steps when building a RAG application in LangChain. How can the Azure Blob Storage document loader help? The langchain-azure-storage package offers the AzureBlobStorageLoader , a document loader that simplifies retrieving documents stored in Azure Blob Storage for use in a LangChain RAG application. Key benefits of the AzureBlobStorageLoader include: Flexible loading of Azure Storage blobs to LangChain Document objects. You can load blobs as documents from an entire container, a specific prefix within a container, or by blob names. Each document loaded corresponds 1:1 to a blob in the container. Lazy loading support for improved memory efficiency when dealing with large document sets. Documents can now be loaded one-at-a-time as you iterate over them instead of all at once. Automatically uses DefaultAzureCredential to enable seamless OAuth 2.0 authentication across various environments, from local development to Azure-hosted services. You can also explicitly pass your own credential (e.g., ManagedIdentityCredential , SAS token). Pluggable parsing. Easily customize how documents are parsed by providing your own LangChain document loader to parse downloaded blob content. Using the Azure Blob Storage document loader Installation To install the langchain-azure-storage package, run: pip install langchain-azure-storage Loading documents from a container To load all blobs from an Azure Blob Storage container as LangChain Document objects, instantiate the AzureBlobStorageLoader with the Azure Storage account URL and container name: from langchain_azure_storage.document_loaders import AzureBlobStorageLoader loader = AzureBlobStorageLoader( "https://<your-storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/", "<your-container-name>" ) # lazy_load() yields one Document per blob for all blobs in the container for doc in loader.lazy_load(): print(doc.metadata["source"]) # The "source" metadata contains the full URL of the blob print(doc.page_content) # The page_content contains the blob's content decoded as UTF-8 text Loading documents by blob names To only load specific blobs as LangChain Document objects, you can additionally provide a list of blob names: from langchain_azure_storage.document_loaders import AzureBlobStorageLoader loader = AzureBlobStorageLoader( "https://<your-storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/", "<your-container-name>", ["<blob-name-1>", "<blob-name-2>"] ) # lazy_load() yields one Document per blob for only the specified blobs for doc in loader.lazy_load(): print(doc.metadata["source"]) # The "source" metadata contains the full URL of the blob print(doc.page_content) # The page_content contains the blob's content decoded as UTF-8 text Pluggable parsing By default, loaded Document objects contain the blob's UTF-8 decoded content. To parse non-UTF-8 content (e.g., PDFs, DOCX, etc.) or chunk blob content into smaller documents, provide a LangChain document loader via the loader_factory parameter. When loader_factory is provided, the AzureBlobStorageLoader processes each blob with the following steps: Downloads the blob to a new temporary file Passes the temporary file path to the loader_factory callable to instantiate a document loader Uses that loader to parse the file and yield Document objects Cleans up the temporary file For example, below shows parsing PDF documents with the PyPDFLoader from the langchain-community package: from langchain_azure_storage.document_loaders import AzureBlobStorageLoader from langchain_community.document_loaders import PyPDFLoader # Requires langchain-community and pypdf packages loader = AzureBlobStorageLoader( "https://<your-storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net/", "<your-container-name>", prefix="pdfs/", # Only load blobs that start with "pdfs/" loader_factory=PyPDFLoader # PyPDFLoader will parse each blob as a PDF ) # Each blob is downloaded to a temporary file and parsed by PyPDFLoader instance for doc in loader.lazy_load(): print(doc.page_content) # Content parsed by PyPDFLoader (yields one Document per page in the PDF) This file path-based interface allows you to use any LangChain document loader that accepts a local file path as input, giving you access to a wide range of parsers for different file formats. Migrating from community document loaders to langchain-azure-storage If you're currently using AzureBlobStorageContainerLoader or AzureBlobStorageFileLoader from the langchain-community package, the new AzureBlobStorageLoader provides an improved alternative. This section provides step-by-step guidance for migrating to the new loader. Steps to migrate To migrate to the new Azure Storage document loader, make the following changes: Depend on the langchain-azure-storage package Update import statements from langchain_community.document_loaders to langchain_azure_storage.document_loaders . Change class names from AzureBlobStorageFileLoader and AzureBlobStorageContainerLoader to AzureBlobStorageLoader . Update document loader constructor calls to: Use an account URL instead of a connection string. Specify UnstructuredLoader as the loader_factory to continue to use Unstructured for parsing documents. Enable Microsoft Entra ID authentication in environment (e.g., run az login or configure managed identity) instead of using connection string authentication. Migration samples Below shows code snippets of what usage patterns look like before and after migrating from langchain-community to langchain-azure-storage : Before migration from langchain_community.document_loaders import AzureBlobStorageContainerLoader, AzureBlobStorageFileLoader container_loader = AzureBlobStorageContainerLoader( "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=<account>;AccountKey=<account-key>;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net", "<container>", ) file_loader = AzureBlobStorageFileLoader( "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=<account>;AccountKey=<account-key>;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net", "<container>", "<blob>" ) After migration from langchain_azure_storage.document_loaders import AzureBlobStorageLoader from langchain_unstructured import UnstructuredLoader # Requires langchain-unstructured and unstructured packages container_loader = AzureBlobStorageLoader( "https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net", "<container>", loader_factory=UnstructuredLoader # Only needed if continuing to use Unstructured for parsing ) file_loader = AzureBlobStorageLoader( "https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net", "<container>", "<blob>", loader_factory=UnstructuredLoader # Only needed if continuing to use Unstructured for parsing ) What's next? We're excited for you to try the new Azure Blob Storage document loader and would love to hear your feedback! Here are some ways you can help shape the future of langchain-azure-storage : Show support for interface stabilization - The document loader is currently in public preview and the interface may change in future versions based on feedback. If you'd like to see the current interface marked as stable, upvote the proposal PR to show your support. Report issues or suggest improvements - Found a bug or have an idea to make the document loaders better? File an issue on our GitHub repository. Propose new LangChain integrations - Interested in other ways to use Azure Storage with LangChain (e.g., checkpointing for agents, persistent memory stores, retriever implementations)? Create a feature request or write to us to let us know. Your input is invaluable in making langchain-azure-storage better for the entire community! Resources langchain-azure GitHub repository langchain-azure-storage PyPI package AzureBlobStorageLoader usage guide AzureBlobStorageLoader documentation referenceGlobal Infrastructure 101 Understanding Data Centers, Regions, and Availability Zones in Azure
In this blog post, we’ll unravel the key building blocks of Microsoft Azure’s global infrastructure — data centers, regions, and availability zones — and how they all fit together to support performance, compliance, scalability, and resilience. https://dellenny.com/global-infrastructure-101-understanding-data-centers-regions-availability-zones-in-azure/
