Recently I had a requirement to automatically configure Activity Logs from multiple subscriptions to send their logs to a Log Analytics workspace. I am talking about this setting here… There are many ways how to achieve this goal. If you are into PowerShell you could use this cmdlet New-AzureRMOperationalInsightsAzureActivityLogDataSource (I like the name ), this […]
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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 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 Log Analytics – Testing JOINs Part 2
In part 1 we got a pretty good understanding how joins work and what the results are. To make this a complete series we will now work on the remaining join types. Full Outer The fullouter join is a join that shows in addition to the inner matches, there’s a row for every row on […]
Azure Log Analytics – Testing JOINs Part 1
Azure Log Analytics offers you a powerful language to analyze your data. I am not a SQL query specialist but as far I can tell there are many similarities between SQL language and (New) Azure Log Analytics query language. One cool thing we can do is using joins. If you look up what a join […]
Azure Log Analytics – Get Data Types
In Azure Log Analytics you get to juggle with your data, turn and twist it the way you need to finally get your insights you want and need it. I just love Azure Log Analytics, there is so much to discover and once you started to explorer the language you figure out how much power […]
Azure Dashboard – Execute Azure Log Analytics Queries
Building good, meaningful dashboards for monitored components is one of the hardest disciplines in a monitoring guys life – at least in my opinion. One little known hero in the Azure dashboard world is the “Markdown” tile… It has the power of running HTML fragments inside as you can see in the sample text provided… […]
Azure Monitor – New Alerts Experience (Preview)
I have been following the updates from Azure Monitor since its birth. Because I am also interested in OMS / Azure Log Analytics it has been an exciting time to see in what direction both products are moving. As we can clearly see the parts of OMS are moving into the Azure portal, there is […]