Alerting at Scale in Azure (Again)

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. …

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Azure Monitor Alert Workbook

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 …

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Azure Monitor Alert Reports with Azure Resource Graph

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 …

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Deploy Azure Monitor Agent at Scale

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 …

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Monitor SSL Certificates with Azure Monitor

This is simultaneously something I’ve been very excited to give you readers a post about and something that’s often asked about as a feature for Azure Monitor. We now have the ability to natively monitor SSL certificates with Azure Monitor and Application Insights availability test. You may remember my old post on Availability test, the …

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