Cost management isn’t very fun, but is vital to any cloud deployment. Without it, your costs can quickly spiral out of control. In this post I’ll provide Cost Management JSON Body examples, because I find the examples in the official docs overly complex and inadequate. If you’ve followed my blog or seen me present you …
Pretty much every blog I’ve produced is a real world solution that I have used in production. Sometimes they are solutions I have worked on recently, sometimes months or even a year has gone by before I finally wrote it down. Sometimes blogging and a real world solution occur at the exact same time. I …
Underneath every Azure Monitor Alert is a Schema. I talked a little bit about the schemas here. For this post I’ll be talking about the Common Alert Schema. However, everything I show can still be done with the non common alert schema. In this post I’ll show you how to examine the Azure Monitor Alert …
When we’re building JSON payload in Powershell, there are a number of things to consider. What are our object types in Powershell? How to combine multiple Powershell Objects to one JSON object? How is the API going to read and parse that payload? For the purposes of this post I’ll be demoing against the Log …
In Powershell, aside from the old school Net objects, we have Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest cmdlets to make HTTP/REST calls. I’ve been exploring both as part of my APIs and Powershell series. So far there are times when one is better than the other at certain things. Like Invoke-RestMethod turning JSON response files directly into Powershell …
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 …