Azure Service Fabric and performance efficiency
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to:
- Package
- Deploy
- Manage scalable and reliable microservices, and containers.
For more information about how Azure Service Fabric can reduce performance issues for your workload with Service Fabric performance counters, reference Monitoring and diagnostic best practices for Azure Service Fabric.
The following section covers configuration recommendations, specific to Azure Service Fabric, and performance efficiency.
Checklist
Have you configured Azure Service Fabric with performance efficiency in mind?
- Exclude the Service Fabric processes from Windows Defender to improve performance.
Configuration recommendation
Consider the following recommendation to optimize your Azure Service Fabric configuration for performance efficiency:
| Azure Service Fabric Recommendation | Description |
|---|---|
| Exclude the Service Fabric processes from Windows Defender to improve performance. | By default, Windows Defender antivirus is installed on Windows Server 2016 and 2019. To reduce any performance impact and resource consumption overhead incurred by Windows Defender, and if your security policies allow you to exclude processes and paths for open-source software, you can exclude the Service Fabric executables from Defender scans. |