Log Analytics Linux Agent Installation Error 61

If like me, you have a shiny new Ubuntu running on your HyperV server, you want to install the Log Analytics agent for Linux. You run the install command below. and then you get a nice error. “Pyhton is not configured or Python does not support ctypes on this system, installation cannot continue.” This error …

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Log Analytics Heartbeat Table

The Heartbeat table in Log Analytics is surprisingly useful for a number of things. First at its base level, it acts as an inventory of your VMs. The table contains a number of useful columns from Solutions a VM is scoped to, Os Type and versions to what resource group they are in. In this …

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Working with Time in Log Analytics

Inside Log Analytics and therefore many other products that use Kusto, we have many options to play with time.  In this post I’ll show real world examples when working with time in Log Analytics. In particular how to use Timespans, Datetime and Time Difference in Kusto. For the purposes of this post all examples will …

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Log Analytics WVD Query Examples

Last year I did a project building monitoring in Log Analytics for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). I am providing these Log Analytics WVD Query Examples as is to help anyone that may be wanting to monitor WVD with Log Analytics. You can find the full github repo here These are some example queries based on …

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Log Analytics Substring and Trim

In a previous post I showed you how to convert strings and summarize the data, in that same post I mentioned some of my weather data was coming in as strings. In this post I have a similar issue. The humidity field is a string, and it contains %. So I will show you how …

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Add Custom Performance Counters Log Analytics

Did you know you can add any performance counter found in Performance Monitor on your Windows servers to Log Analytics work space in Azure Monitor? Yea I didn’t either. I’ve been working on a project for Microsoft Consulting Services working with a MS Product Group, all of which is under NDA. However, I can tell …

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