Blog Series: APIs and Powershell

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 …

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Creating Custom Azure Log Analytics Logs

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Azure Log Analytics has the ability to monitor a lot of technologies via the many solutions you can add to the service. However, what if you want to log something that isn’t available as a solution? Azure Log Analytics includes a REST API that you can post logs to. Using the the REST API will …

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How to find Azure Log Analytics Keys

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This post is now dated, I have created a new one with the latest information here https://www.systemcenterautomation.com/2020/08/log-analytics-keys/   When using Azure Log Analytics, whether its adding agents to the workspace, or accessing the REST API, you need two things to perform these tasks. The Customer ID, often called the Workspace ID and the Shared Key …

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