Build Azure Policy Compliance Workbook

Did you know that your Azure Policy data is in Azure Resource Graph? It is under the policyresources table. Since it is in Azure Resource Graph that means we can query it from Azure Workbooks, and create Workbooks like my inventory workbook. If you’re not familiar with Azure Resource Graph I have a primer you …

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Deploy Azure Monitor Agent at Scale

There’s a new agent for Azure Monitor. Naturally, at some point you’ll need to deploy this agent. And if we’re talking cloud, you’ll probably need to do it at scale. Even doing it on 50 servers is more than I would want to touch by hand At scale, your first thought might be PowerShell. While …

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Monitor SSL Certificates with Azure Monitor

This is simultaneously something I’ve been very excited to give you readers a post about and something that’s often asked about as a feature for Azure Monitor. We now have the ability to natively monitor SSL certificates with Azure Monitor and Application Insights availability test. You may remember my old post on Availability test, the …

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Azure Monitor, Security Center, Sentinel Infrastructure as Code with Bicep

When deploying resources to Azure, you have several options, the Azure Portal, PowerShell, Azure Resource Management (ARM) Templates, and now we have Bicep templates. In this post I’ll share a Bicep template I’ve made to help you deploy Log Analytics, the backbone of Azure Monitor, Sentinel and Security Center. For the operations monitoring Application Insights, …

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Kusto Make-Series vs Summarize

You already know summarize in Kusto is pretty magical right? Well if not I’ll be going over some of its awesome sauce. In addition this post is going to talk about make-series and how it compares to summarize and when you might want to use each. Per the usual, my examples will be in Log …

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