Do you have a .NET application running somewhere in your datacenter or in the cloud and you have the need to monitor it properly? Maybe you need some APM tool or you just want to diagnose, if there are any failure or issues and what it might be causing these problems? In addition, you might […]
Author: stefanroth
Azure DevOps – Commit URL On Azure Resource Tag (Part 2)
In my previous part I built a solution where I used https://rebrandly.com service to shorten the commit URL and add to a tag on a storage account. The problem might be, that you don’t want to us a public link shortening service like https://rebrandly.com or any other like https://bit.ly etc. you might be afraid of […]
Azure DevOps – Commit URL on Azure Resource Tag (Part 1)
When you deploy an Azure resource like VM, storage account etc. via Azure DevOps you don’t know from which commit in your repository it had been deployed. The only thing you can assume that it was probably the latest run of your pipeline which deployed that resource. There is no obvious connection between the ARM […]
Azure Policy – Export Azure Policy Definitions
If you are moving to Microsoft Azure you immediately have to deal with governance and compliance topics. In Microsoft Azure there is the Cloud Adaption Framework (CAF) which guides you through the journey of moving to Azure. One very important part is cloud governance with all its flavors. One single piece of this governance cake […]
Azure Portal – Create Refreshing Big Screen Dashboard
One thing that was bugging me for quite some time, how can we make our Azure portal dashboard usable on a big screen? As you might know I have a strong monitoring background and one thing that always comes up is, how to represent the monitoring data on a big screen. The Azure portal provides […]
Azure Stack – Use Function To Generate SAS Token For Blob Content
Introduction When it comes to Azure Stack, a lot of customers want to know what can Azure Stack do for them or in other words what are the use cases for Azure Stack. Let’s assume you need to exchange files or any other blob content either between systems or users on-premises. This could be a […]
Azure Log Analytics – Get Windows Event Description
There are cases where Microsoft tries to make our live a bit harder than it needs to be. One thing I always struggled with in the old SCOM days and also in the present Azure Log Analytics (ALA) days are Windows event descriptions. I just had a need to get the event description for a […]
Azure Monitor – Modify Alerts Using Logic App
I am a big fan of Azure Monitor and Azure in general. What I like is the service offers, the flexibility, standards and the chance that you can build basically anything you want – the limit is your imagination. In terms of flexibility I have a nice example which was bothering me for some time. […]
Azure – Azure Mask
I really like to do presentations about the latest and greatest Microsoft Azure technology. One big security problem I always have is that e.g. Subscription ID, email addresses, keys etc. are visible on a big screen or visible in the session recordings afterwards. A very nice tool to hide such sensitive information is a browser […]
Azure Dashboard – Edit Log Analytics Tiles
Sometimes there are small changes that can make you happy. In the field of monitoring you always get questions about dashboarding and presenting the monitoring data. Although the Azure portal dashboard has still some missing features like full screen and refresh interval feature. In terms of tiles it got some additional improvements. I am very […]