Azure Application Change Analysis

This is a post I’ve been meaning to put out for quite a while. Early last year, I discovered the service when coming up with a presentation on why a client should use Azure Monitor. Azure Application Change Analysis can track changes to Azure Resources as well as your Apps. In particular it shines with …

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Find Orphaned Azure Resources

As a follow up to my Azure Resource Graph examples repo, I have a few queries to find orphaned Azure resources. These queries are all in the repo, but I’m doing a separate post on this because I feel its a pretty common problem to have orphaned resources. I will also be adding more queries …

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Azure Workbooks: Icons Thresholds & Heatmaps

Today I want to show you how you can use icons, thresholds and heatmaps in Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel Workbooks. These have long been things I’ve used in almost all my workbooks. Along with grouping and showing resource icons, these are what I consider nice touches that take your workbooks from a nice idea …

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How to use Grouping Azure Workbooks

This is the second post in some Azure Workbooks quick tips. You can find the first one here. As your Azure environment grows, you’re likely to encounter situations where you have 2 or more subscriptions. Or if you are using Azure Lighthouse you might have dozens or hundreds of subscriptions under your management. This can …

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Azure Resource Graph Examples and Github Repo

Today I’m releasing my Azure Resource Graph examples repo. This has been an internal repo I created and shared internally late 2019. Now everyone gets to benefit! Bonus, I have taken every query out of my Ultimate Azure Inventory workbook and added them to the repo as well. TLDR you can find the Azure Resource …

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How to Show Azure Resource Icons in Workbooks

One of my favorite tricks when building Azure Monitor or Azure Sentinel workbooks is to include the Azure Resource specific icons next to resources. For metric based resources the icons are including for you automatically when using Grid visualization. But for logs, you need to bring in  ‘_ResourceId’ in Log Analytics. For Azure Resourec Graph …

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Kusto Evaluate Operator and its Plugins

The evaluate operator is fantastic tool in your Kusto tool belt. So much so that I have requested several times that it get added to Azure Resource Graph. However, the Evaluate Operator itself won’t run anything. You have to add one of its Plugins behind it. In this post I’ll show you how to use …

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