Any good monitoring solution has performance counters. Monitoring performance of your systems can put you ahead of issues, allowing you to be proactive, instead of reactive. That said, Azure Log Analytics Performance Counters aren’t enabled by default. However, it’s very easy to enable them and they add a ton of value to the monitoring environment. …
A Cosmos DB post? Yea, a Cosmos DB post. A while back in the start of my Powershell and APIs series I mentioned I may try to post data to Azure Cosmos DB REST API with Powershell. So, here we are. What is Cosmos DB From Microsoft: Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model …
You may already know that you can multi-home Azure Log Analytics Agents. However did you know that you can multi-home them when one of your Log Analytics sources is a SCOM Management Server? Yes you can. As well as any custom logs you create, you can simply add extra keys and workspace IDs to your …
This post is aimed at beginners with Azure Log Analytics. I’ll be discussing how you can use the Azure Log Analytics Distinct operator when you query data in your Log Analytics workspace. The Distinct operator is useful when you want to DE-duplicate your data. Or if you want to generate a report, or finding how …
This is the idea behind the series. Taking your BBQ stats and putting them into Azure Log Analytics. I haven’t had my CyberQ WiFi for very long, but it didn’t take long before I was wondering how I could explore the data it was generating while I cooked. Once I started exploring the CyberQ web …
As part of my blog series on APIs and Powershell, this first post will show you how you to post your weather data to Azure Log Analytics using Weather Underground. While I’m not the first to put weather data in Azure Log Analytics, it’s still a great example and I’m not using the same weather …
Starting out on helpdesk and moving to systems administration, I never had any exposure to APIs and how to use them. I would be in meetings and people would start talking about APIs and this would be me. Instead of being clueless, I would rather know a little bit when people smarter than me start …