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If you are getting below error on your CD servers then it could be related with Azure Redis Cache issue. ERROR Application error. Exception: System.TimeoutException Message: Timeout performing EVAL, inst: 1, mgr: Inactive, err: never, queue: 144, qu: 0, qs: 144, qc: 0, wr: 0, wq: 0, in: 65536, ar: 0, IOCP: (Busy=0,Free=1000,Min=4,Max=1000), WORKER: (Busy=526,Free=32241,Min=550,Max=32767), clientName: RD00155D427872 Source: StackExchange.Redis.StrongName    at StackExchange.Redis.ConnectionMultiplexer.ExecuteSyncImpl[T](Message message, ResultProcessor`1 processor, ServerEndPoint server)    at StackExchange.Redis.RedisBase.ExecuteSync[T](Message message, ResultProcessor`1 processor, ServerEndPoint server)    at StackExchange.Redis.RedisDatabase.ScriptEvaluate(String script, RedisKey[] keys, RedisValue[] values, CommandFlags flags)    at Sitecore.SessionProvider.Redis.StackExchangeClientConnection.<>c__DisplayClass12_0.<Eval>b...

Experience Optimization Experience Optimization provides feature to Content Editors and Marketers to test which pages, components, or combinations of components are the most effective among multivariate testing.  We can do the following tests in Sitecore: Content Testing Page Test Component Test For more information about A/B Testing please visit here . Active Test Issue with Sitecore 9.0.2 There are many open issues with Sitecore Experience optimization. 1. Unable to see active test from dashboard. 2. Unable to see active test warnings in quick info section of Content Editor. 3. Few mores are there. We were unable to see active tests from Experience Optimization then we found that this is an issue with Sitecore as per here No Active Test Visible Root Cause INFO  AzureSearch Query [sitecore_testing_index]: &search=This_Is_Equal_ConstNode_Return_Nothing Above exception we were getting because Azure index stores testing information...

Introduction Coveo is a web search provider which can be integrated with Sitecore for website search not CM search. Coveo supports almost all Sitecore versions and Coveo releases its patch at every 6 weeks. Technology Coveo supports both on-premises and cloud technology. Cloud is the future so you can find the difference between cloud vs on-premises features here . Here we are installing Coveo 4.1 on Azure PaaS with configuration of Hive UI framework. Coveo for Sitecore 4.1 Cloud. Sitecore 9.0.2 on Azure PaaS. Coveo Hive UI Integration. Challenges Coveo doesn’t provide direct feature to install on Sitecore like other modules what we can install direct from Sitecore installation wizard. We had two major challenge because we were trying to install Coveo on Azure what Coveo doesn’t support out of the box Coveo Compatibility with Sitecore on Azure PaaS In Sitecore 9, Sitecore Azure module doesn’t exist as per  here  because Sitecore 9 is based upon MS app ser...