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 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 …
This was certainly not a post I was planning on this week. It’s 4th of July here in the US and that means most places are closed for the holiday. Which also means our kids are home for the day. Normally this would be great, we would be outside having fun, but its raining. If …
Staying on top of performance issues is a top priority for any ops team. When it comes to high CPU issues your monitoring solution may be able to tell you when CPU is high on any server. But beyond that you were then logging into the server to run perfmon or some other tool, or …
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 …