Azure Workbooks: Query Azure Subscription Limits

Azure Workbooks are incredibly flexible and dynamic. If this happens to be your first trip to my blog, I am a big fan of using Workbooks to accomplish almost all your data visualization needs, observability of your Azure resources, inventory, even querying cost management and Azure Policy. In this post I’ll show you how to …

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Format the TimeGenerated Field Azure Log Analytics

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() …

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Using Azure Log Analytics Distinct Operator

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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 …

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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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