With the release of SCOM 1801, Microsoft has released a full HTML5 dashboard for SCOM. There are no more dependencies on silver-light. So how does the new dashboard compare to third party SCOM HTML5 dashboards? full disclosure: I have used SquaredUp for years in lab and production environments. I have recommended it to several clients …
This is the idea behind the series. Taking your BBQ stats and putting them into Azure Log Analytics. I haven’t had my CyberQ WiFi for very long, but it didn’t take long before I was wondering how I could explore the data it was generating while I cooked. Once I started exploring the CyberQ web …
As part of my blog series on APIs and Powershell, this first post will show you how you to post your weather data to Azure Log Analytics using Weather Underground. While I’m not the first to put weather data in Azure Log Analytics, it’s still a great example and I’m not using the same weather …
Starting out on helpdesk and moving to systems administration, I never had any exposure to APIs and how to use them. I would be in meetings and people would start talking about APIs and this would be me. Instead of being clueless, I would rather know a little bit when people smarter than me start …
Azure Log Analytics has the ability to monitor a lot of technologies via the many solutions you can add to the service. However, what if you want to log something that isn’t available as a solution? Azure Log Analytics includes a REST API that you can post logs to. Using the the REST API will …
This post is now dated, I have created a new one with the latest information here https://www.systemcenterautomation.com/2020/08/log-analytics-keys/ When using Azure Log Analytics, whether its adding agents to the workspace, or accessing the REST API, you need two things to perform these tasks. The Customer ID, often called the Workspace ID and the Shared Key …
Lynn Taggart from Microsoft, provided a SCOM Technology Update the other day. There are quite a few fixes included, most importantly to me, was a fix for the Report Server Upgrade issue I noted in my Upgrade SCOM 2016 to 1801 post. During the upgrade from SCOM 2016 to SCOM 1801, if the reporting …