I recently took a look at the Azure Sentinel Syslog Workbook, called Linux Machines. This workbook is not great, its essentially a dashboard. For me the power of Workbooks in both Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel is hunting, whether you’re hunting threats or operational issues with your infrastructure or applications. Workbook Resources If this is …
In the past few months I’ve spoken with multiple Microsoft employees and even Microsoft MVPs that don’t understand Azure Sentinel, Azure Security Center, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics and whats the difference. There seems to be some confusion around these products and how they are used together. I recently put together a diagram for a …
Something I’ve been working on off and on was a LogicApps workbook for Azure Monitor. The view designer dashboard, was always in preview and kind of bad. Donnie’s recent post in our series inspired me to finish it. Especially since we’ve gotten confirmation that the view designer is going to be phased out. This workbook …
Every Windows admin knows “check the logs” right? RIGHT? No one actually likes looking at each servers individual Event Log. At least I never did, even remotely its difficult, and switching context between log sources is a pain as well. Well Log Analytics can collect those event logs. And because Log Analytics can collect those …
In this latest post in Donnie and I’s Migrating from Orchestrator series, I’ll show you how to setup Hybrid Connection for PowerShell Azure Functions. This will allow you to perform automation tasks on-prem with Function Apps using PowerShell Core. Requirements App Service Plan Azure Function in my case I’m using PowerShell Core You’ll need a …
In this post I’ll show you how I collect my solar production data from the SolarEdge API and send it to Log Analytics. Notice I said collect and not monitor. While the SolarEdge API is actually fairly well documented, the API is limited to calls at a 15 minute interval. In the SolarEdge App and …
You may have seen my previous post on collecting weather data from WeatherUnderground. With this post I will show you how to collect Ambient Weather data from the API with Azure Functions. Why a new post? A few reasons. One, that post was with the experimental Windows PowerShell Azure Functions, which are no longer available. …