As with anything in Azure there are multiple ways to skin a cat. We can send logs to our Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace with powershell. Or we can use a powershell based Azure Function, however, in this post I’ll show you how to grab data from an API and use that data to create …
Last year I did a project building monitoring in Log Analytics for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). I am providing these Log Analytics WVD Query Examples as is to help anyone that may be wanting to monitor WVD with Log Analytics. You can find the full github repo here These are some example queries based on …
Sometimes we may want to programmatically turn our Azure Functions off or on or do other management tasks with them. This post will show you how you can Manage Azure Functions with Managed Identity Logic Apps. What you’ll need: Azure Function Logic App Azure Active Directory (pretty much always included now right?) Setup Managed Identity …
In my previous post I showed how you can setup a website availability monitor within Application Insights. That post gave us some data to use and play with. In this post, I’m going to show you how you can light up your world with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in Application Insights. Unlike the Website Availability …
In a previous post I showed you how to convert strings and summarize the data, in that same post I mentioned some of my weather data was coming in as strings. In this post I have a similar issue. The humidity field is a string, and it contains %. So I will show you how …
If you’ve read my blog before then you probably know that Application Insights uses the same query language as Log Analytics and that Log Analytics are both services under the Azure Monitor name. So, why not delve a little into application monitoring? In this post I’ll show you how to monitor website availability. Along with …
In our Log Analytics workspace under the Azure Monitor umbrella, we have a number of predefined monitoring solutions. These are some of the ones I would consider to be a no-brainer installs in any Log Analytics workspace. The only reason really, to not install them would be if you’re simply not using the related product. …