Upgrading Logic App Consumption to Logic App Standard

Migrate to Logic App Standard

Microsoft Azure Logic Apps is a platform for building, automating, and managing workflows without needing to write code. With the introduction of the Logic App Standard, integration developers now have an alternative to the existing Logic App Consumption model. While this shift comes with its advantages, it’s crucial to plan and consider your options carefully. In this blog post, we’ll explore the motivation behind transitioning from Logic App Consumption to Logic App Standard. We’ll highlight the key differences between the two models, providing a comprehensive guide for making the switch. We’ll also discuss important factors to keep in mind and address any potential limitations that may arise when adopting the Logic App Standard approach.

Motivation to Migrate to Logic App Standard?

The decision to migrate from Logic App Consumption to Logic App Standard can be driven by various factors, including:

Motivation for Upgrading or migrating Logic App Consumption to Logic App Standard
  1. Cost Efficiency: Logic App Standard presents pricing structures compared to Logic App Consumption, which makes it ideal for workloads with consistent traffic patterns.
  2. Compliance and Security Requirements: For organizations that have compliance or security needs, utilizing Logic App Standard can offer added control and isolation which could be advantageous. Integrate your Logic Apps with a Virtual Network (VNet) for secure communication within a designated network environment. For organizations navigating stringent compliance regulations, Standard offers features like private endpoints and additional authentication and authorization capabilities. These functionalities bolster data protection and adherence to regulatory requirements.
  3. Enhanced Functionality: With features like virtual network integration, custom connectors, dedicated compute resources and support for .NET libraries in XSLT data transformations; Logic App Standard offers increased flexibility and customization options. Additionally, it supports Maps and Schemas without requiring Integration accounts and also provides Business Process Tracking capabilities.
  4. Performance and Scalability: For tasks demanding throughput or specific configurations Logic App Standard delivers improved performance and scalability features over its Consumption counterpart. Granular resource control is available, through Logic App Standards offerings.
  5. Improved monitoring: Standard logic apps have basic monitoring like run history and IDs. Enhance monitoring with Application Insights to get detailed logs, create dashboards, and track business processes (with some effort). Leverage Azure Monitor Logs (preview) for even deeper analysis. While not directly supported within standard logic apps, with the help of Business Process Tacking, can leverage Application Insights to track your business processes. By instrumenting your logic app with custom tracking events and properties, you can map these events to specific stages in your business process for monitoring.

Export Consumption workflows to a Standard logic app

You can now export Consumption logic apps to a Standard logic app. Using Visual Studio Code and the latest Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extension, you export your logic apps as stateful workflows to a Standard logic app project. You can then locally update, test, and debug your workflows to get them ready for redeployment. When you’re ready, you can deploy either directly from Visual Studio Code or through your own DevOps process.

Export Consumption workflows to a Standard logic app : More Info

Known issues and limitations

  • The export tool doesn’t export any infrastructure information, such as integration account settings.
  • The export tool can export logic app workflows with triggers that have concurrency settings. However, single-tenant Azure Logic Apps ignore these settings.
  • Logic apps must exist in the same region if you want to export them within the same Standard logic app project.
  • By default, connection credentials aren’t cloned from source logic app workflows. Before your logic app workflows can run, you’ll have to reauthenticate these connections after export.
  • By default, if an Azure connector has a built-in connector version, the export tool automatically converts the Azure connector to the built-in connector. No option exists to opt out of this behaviour.

Understanding the Limitations of Logic App Standard

While Logic App Standard offers lots of benefits, it’s essential to be aware of its limitations:

  1. Feature Parity: Not all features available in Logic App Consumption are supported in Logic App Standard, so assess your requirements carefully.
  2. Customization Complexity: Implementing advanced customization or integration scenarios in Logic App Standard may require additional development effort compared to Logic App Consumption
  3. Increased Management Overhead: Managing and maintaining dedicated resources in Standard requires a more hands-on approach compared to the fully managed environment of Logic App Consumption. Organizations need to allocate resources for ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and optimization tasks.
  4. Potential Cost Considerations: Although Standard can offer cost savings for predictable workloads, it might incur higher upfront costs due to resource provisioning and reserved capacity commitments. Integrations which have a very small load and infrequent integration may result in higher costs for the Logic App Standard compared to the Consumption one.
  5. Deployment Complexity: Deploying and configuring Standard, is complex compared to consumption Logic App.

Limits and configuration reference for Azure Logic Apps : More info

Conclusion

Switching from Logic App Consumption to Logic App Standard offers organizations a chance to access features that improve control, Security, scalability and streamline costs, for their integration and workflow automation requirements. By following best practices, and recognizing the constraints of Logic App Standard, organizations can migrate to Standard logic app, without causing any major impacts and enjoying the advantages of a standard Logic app integration platform.