In my last post I showed you how to configure Kubernetes to configure Azure Monitor scraping to collect Prometheus metrics from a GO application. This time I would like to show you how to present this data properly in a nice dashboard. Luckily Microsoft has just released an awesome looking Grafana template… …which we will […]
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Azure Monitor – Monitoring Kubernetes (AKS) Sample Application Using Prometheus Scraping
Kubernetes is a proven and booming technology on Azure and so it is no surprise, that we need to monitor the Kubernetes infrastructure layer as well as the applications running on top of Kubernetes. A while ago Microsoft released Azure Monitor for containers, which gives you a good health and performance status of your Azure […]
ARM – Connect Activity Logs From Multiple Subscriptions As Log Analytics Workspace Data Source
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 […]
Azure Monitor – Application Insights Status Monitor v2 (Part 1)
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 […]
Azure Monitor – Application Insights Web Test Query Azure Resource Graph
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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]