At Ignite 2018 a couple of weeks ago, I got the feeling that Microsoft is getting really serious about their hybrid cloud strategy. It may sound strange or weird, because Microsoft always used the terms hybrid cloud and announced tailored products. But in the past years, I wasn’t really sure that Microsoft will hear the […]
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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 […]
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 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 […]
Azure Log Analytics – Portal Refresh
It has been not long ago when Microsoft introduced the new Azure Log Analytics query language and also the new portal experience at http://portal.loganalytics.io . Just as we got used to the portal, I noticed some refreshes and clean up. The portal looks now like this… …the menu to run the query, set the interval, […]