Windows Memory Metric in Azure Monitor Log Analytics

For the longest time I recommended using % Committed Bytes in Use memory metric for Windows Servers in Azure Monitor and Log Analytics. Sometime last year it was brought to my attention by one of our fantastic senior support members, that the metric might not be the best for alerting. % Committed Bytes In Use The …

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Extracting Nested Fields in Kusto 2.0

What a difference 3 years makes. Since my last Extracting nested fields post, I’ve learned a lot and thought it might be time to provide a new post with new examples and more ways to accomplish the same goal. Like the first version, but better! Operators, Functions & Dynamic Types, Oh my! There are a number …

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Azure Monitor Alerts from Azure Resource Graph

In my previous post I talked about how we can now query Azure Resource Graph data with Log Analytics. The purpose of that addition was to be able to alert on Azure Resource Graph data with Azure Monitor Alerts. In this post I’ll show exactly what you need to be able to create alerts in …

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Advanced Azure Workbooks – Parameters as Datasets

Workbooks are quite amazing. Its quite often I look at someone else’s work in a Workbook and blown away, not knowing that you could do whatever it is that I saw. One such amazing thing Workbooks can do is Datasets as Parameters. Meaning we can get data from Log Analytics, Azure Resource Graph, Application Insights, …

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Managed Identity for Azure Monitor Log Alerts

Have you created a Log Alert recently? You might have noticed a new section under “Details” of the alert. Managed Identity has been added to Log Alerts, to allow you to set a context in which the Log Alert query will run in. This setting is currently in preview and you can read more about …

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Migrating Classic Application Insights

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last year or so, you know that Application Insights now lives on top of Log Analytics. Which also means you need to convert your Classic Application Insights to the new Workspace model Applicaiton Insights. The docs for this process and what it entails can be found here. …

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Find Full FSLogix Profiles

If you’re using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Citrix with FSLogix, your users profiles in FSLogix are pretty important to them and their overall experience using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). If their profiles are full or almost full this can cause a whole host of issues, not the least of which possibly failing to login. …

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