PSST: you could read this post. Orrrr you could check out the new 2.0 version, which has way more examples. Extracting Nested Fields in Kusto 2.0 – Cloud, Systems Management and Automation (cloudsma.com) Pretty much every blog I’ve produced is a real world solution that I have used in production. Sometimes they are …
Azure ARC is a new service from Microsoft announced at Ignite 2019. The service promises the ability to use the same Azure management tools to manage and monitor your on-prem workloads or even in another cloud. At present Azure ARC Machines is in preview and limited to Guest Configuration and Monitoring. That said, if you’ve …
The Azure Advent Calendar is a great idea from Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper. Community members the world over have contributed videos pertaining to Azure. My video is on Azure Monitor Workbooks. In the video I take you through many of the useful features of Workbooks. Video Outline Below is the rough video outline with …
In my opinion, part of monitoring with Azure Monitor is being able to alert at scale. When we say alerting at scale this means a few things to me. First, being able to create alerts in a programmatic fashion. Second, it means creating alerts that cover multiple resources at once. For instance, creating a CPU …
Since I’ve started working in Azure full time for the last few years I’ve now seen a number of environments. This post will outline my Azure Monitor Management Tips to make your life easier. And how you should set it up depending on your needs. Given my focus has largely been on Monitoring, these tips …
If you saw my Update Management post on Workbooks you know I really like them. But if you read that post then you also know I really want a way for my workbooks to dynamically select resources, or in my case dynamically select all my Log Analytics workspaces. Well I found out how to do …
This post assumes you have some basic knowledge of Azure Monitor. If you are not familiar with Alerts in Azure Monitor you can read more about them here. This post might be a little different from my other posts in that I’ll be covering several topics under Alerting. Log Search vs Metric Alert Within …