Back in the good, old SCOM days, there was a thing called Global Service Monitor (GSM) which is still available. What was / is GSM? System Center Global Service Monitor is a cloud service that provides a simplified way to monitor the availability of external-web-based applications from multiple locations around the world. One of the […]
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Azure Monitor – Purge Azure Log Analytics Data Using PowerShell
Usually I am going to blog about solutions and ideas we will use in a constructive way. In this blog post I am going to talk about a destructive solution, which will be hopefully rarely used. As we all know Azure Log Analytics is a great log and analytics platform, where we can insert data […]
Azure Functions – Azure Functions Using Hybrid Connections
I had an idea to access an on-premise source like a database or something else via Azure Functions. There other approaches where you could use Logic Apps and the corresponding gateway to access on-premises system data. But using Logic Apps we relay on connectors and actions and are not as free as using Azure Functions […]
Azure Bot Service – MAX Automation and Monitoring Bot
I had a dream! I had a dream about talking and chatting with my computer and then would receive a spoken or written answer to my question. In a similar way like this movie scene . Which sounds like a dream, could become reality for you or maybe it already is in your company. This […]
Azure Stack – ASDK Syslog Client Meets Log Analytics
In my previous post I blogged about how to install the latest version of Azure Stack Development Kit. Release 1.1809.0.90 has a built-in syslog client which I wanted to test. Azure Log Analytics supports syslog messages and therefore I think it is a valid solution to use it with Azure Stack. Sounds very cool in […]
Azure Stack – Deploy Latest Azure Stack Development Kit 1.1809.0.90 on Azure VM
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post how to install Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) 1.1018.0.97 on an Azure VM. If we want to test the latest release of Azure Stack (DK) we need to redeploy the entire VM, because there is no supported update nor upgrade process for the ASDK. So […]
Azure Stack – Azure Stack Development Kit Meets Terraform
In this post I would like to write about my experiences using Terraform on Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK). What is Terraform? Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. Configuration files describe to Terraform the […]
Azure Monitor – Combine Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics Data in Grafana
Probably one of the biggest pain in monitoring is to provide a dashboard displaying all information needed. There are many third party solutions available but also Microsoft offers plenty of ways to display monitoring information. One feature I like very much is to have Azure Log Analytic queries exported and displayed in PowerBI. In this […]
Azure Stack – Azure Stack Development Kit Azure Registration
The next step in our Azure Stack Development Kit journey is to join Azure. In order to download marketplace items from Azure and to set up commerce data reporting back to Microsoft, we will need to register Azure Stack in Azure. This is required to support full Azure Stack functionality, including marketplace syndication. If you […]
Azure Stack – Azure Stack Development Kit Post Deployment
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I want to get some hands on Azure Stack 1808 and therefore I will write down a couple of post to share my steps, impressions and experience. The posts are not a tutorial how to set up Azure Stack in production, it is more like to get […]