How to find Azure Log Analytics Keys

I’m redoing an old post on how to find Azure Log Analytics keys, because a lot has changed in both azure and Log Analytics since I wrote the last post. If you came here from that post or found via your favorite search engine, you’re now in the right place. Your Log Analytics keys are …

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Azure Monitor Community

Last week the Azure Monitor team announced a new Community for Workbooks, queries and alerts for Azure Monitor. Hopefully it becomes to Azure Operations as what the Azure Sentinel Community has become. Despite being around a lot less time than Azure Monitor, there are many workbooks, queries, Jupyter Notebooks for use in the Azure Sentinel …

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Azure Monitor SQL Insights Workbook

Today I have a workbook long in the making. This workbook is for Azure SQL DBs, SQL DW and Elastic Pool servers. This is my most in depth Azure Monitor workbook to date and brings in Metrics and Logs in from across your Azure SQL resources. I’ve said a few times on twitter that if …

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Azure Monitor Change Tracking Workbook

I’m back again, with another workbook. This time for Azure Automation Change Tracking solution for Azure Monitor. If you’ve read my blog at all, you know Change Tracking is one of my favorite solutions for Azure Monitor. You can track your services, as well as registry and software and files, on both Linux and Windows. …

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Log Analytics Operators Has, Contains and In

Recently Log Analytics added a neat feature that allows you to see how well your queries run. Because Log Analytics Operators Has and Contains perform similar functions, some have been advising to only use the Has operator as it is the most efficient. However, Has is nice but it is not the be all and …

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Installing Software with Azure Image Builder

I have been working a lot with Azure Image Builder service recently. In this post I’ll go over what installing software with Azure Image Builder. Its a really neat service, still in public preview, that allows you to select Azure Market place images and build a gold image from it. There is value of course …

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Azure Monitor, Sentinel QuickStart Workbook templates

If you’ve followed me at all over the last few years, I make a lot of workbooks. I have a number of them on my github. I have these workbooks for your usage, completely free. LogicApps/Azure Sentinel Playbooks Azure Automation Update Management Azure File Sync Syslog Windows Event Log But now I’m putting out the …

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