Ever see something really cool or neat in a Azure Workbook and want to use that in your own Workbook? You don’t have to copy the whole Workbook, you can copy just the portion you want. In the target workbook edit it, then edit the target widget you want. Navigate to Advanced Editor, collapse number …
Did you know we can now monitor and alert on Key Vault Certificates and their expiration? I’m sure you did, there’s post after post of people showing this with Event Grid. So what’s the point of my post then? Well dear reader if you’ve ever read any of my posts or know anything about me, I …
So, you want to alert at scale in Azure. Come grab a seat and let me regale you with the pitfalls of resource types, subscription & resource group scopes, and Log Analytics. I have previously talked about Alerting at Scale with PowerShell in this post and how to do it with PowerShell in this post. …
Did you know there’s all sorts of data in Azure Resource Graph, specifically all your active Azure Monitor alerts and your Alert inventory? If not why didnt you read my last post? Anyway we have all this wonderful data, but not native built in reporting, in Azure Monitor like other monitoring tools like System Center …
In this post I’ll show you how to extract just about any Azure Monitor Alert information with Azure Resource Graph. With this data we can build some pretty neat Azure Monitor Alert reports. For Azure Monitor alerts we have two tables in Azure Resource Graph. Alertsmanagementresources and the resources table. Alerts management resources table has …
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 …
In case you haven’t heard there’s a new agent in town. Its called the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA), this agent is brand new, re-written from the ground up and is going to replace the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) currently used by Log Analytics. This post will serve as both informational and opinion about the new …