How to Copy Azure Workbook Elements

Ever see something really cool or neat in a Azure Workbook and want to use that in your own Workbook? You don’t have to copy the whole Workbook, you can copy just the portion you want. In the target workbook edit it, then edit the target widget you want. Navigate to Advanced Editor, collapse number …

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Must Install Azure Monitor Solutions

In our Log Analytics workspace under the Azure Monitor umbrella, we have a number of predefined monitoring solutions. These are some of the ones I would consider to be a no-brainer installs in any Log Analytics workspace. The only reason really, to not install them would be if you’re simply not using the related product. …

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Azure Backup Error 0x07546

We recently had a client contact us because their backup on a drive for a server stopped working. They said they hadn’t changed anything and that it was working previously. This server was backing up two drives, the other was still completing successfully, despite the error on the problem child. Upon inspection of the agent, …

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Microsoft Ignite 2018: Azure Monitor Announcements

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 …

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Azure Log Analytics Server Performance Report

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 …

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Azure Log Analytics Summarize Operator

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 …

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Kusto Query Language: the PowerShell of query languages?

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, …

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