Getting the Azure Monitor Agent, formerly the Microsoft Monitor Agent (MMA) and Operations Management Suite (OMS) agent, installed on servers, and more importantly installed on new servers is not a very fun or enjoyable task. There are a number of ways to do it. In this post I’ll show you how to do it, and …
There were a number of announcements at Ignite about Azure Monitor, I’ll link to all of the ones I’m aware of in this post. The first of which is that Log Analytics is now under Azure Monitor. If you’ve read my blog before you know I’ve been posting a lot about Log Analytics. Azure Monitor …
Having worked with SCOM for a number of years, one of things I grew to really like is some of the performance reporting available from the SCOM Data Warehouse. Presently, Log Analytics offers no real out of box performance reporting. Some of the solutions offer dashboards and things like that. In this post I’ll be …
This post is aimed at beginners with Azure Log Analytics. I’ll be discussing how you can use the Azure Log Analytics Summarize operator when you query data in your Log Analytics workspace. The Summarize Operator will likely be the most commonly used Operator. It seems like at least once a week I learn something knew …
I don’t usually get into speculation or predictions. More often than not they turn out wrong. However, something that I’ve been thinking about is the Kusto Query Language, which is the language behind many of my recent posts on Azure Log Analytics. But the PowerShell of query languages? PowerShell is pretty ubiquitous at this point, …
I was recently writing a summary performance report binned by day. If you have used the summarize operator with bin you know that the TimeGenerated field has a lot of extra characters on it. So naturally my next question was how do you format the TimeGenerated Field? I took a look at the official format_datetime() …
This post is aimed at beginners with Azure Log Analytics. I’ll be discussing how you can use the Azure Log Analytics Project operator when you query data in your Log Analytics workspace. The Project operator works similarly to Select-Object in Powershell. If we do: We get a bunch of fields back. Including our TenantId, which …