Monitor Key Vault Certificates

Did you know we can now monitor and alert on Key Vault Certificates and their expiration? I’m sure you did, there’s post after post of people showing this with Event Grid. So what’s the point of my post then? Well dear reader if you’ve ever read any of my posts or know anything about me, I …

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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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Find Orphaned Azure Resources

As a follow up to my Azure Resource Graph examples repo, I have a few queries to find orphaned Azure resources. These queries are all in the repo, but I’m doing a separate post on this because I feel its a pretty common problem to have orphaned resources. I will also be adding more queries …

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Azure Monitor Community

Last week the Azure Monitor team announced a new Community for Workbooks, queries and alerts for Azure Monitor. Hopefully it becomes to Azure Operations as what the Azure Sentinel Community has become. Despite being around a lot less time than Azure Monitor, there are many workbooks, queries, Jupyter Notebooks for use in the Azure Sentinel …

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Log Analytics Operators Has, Contains and In

Recently Log Analytics added a neat feature that allows you to see how well your queries run. Because Log Analytics Operators Has and Contains perform similar functions, some have been advising to only use the Has operator as it is the most efficient. However, Has is nice but it is not the be all and …

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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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