Azure Workbooks are incredibly flexible and dynamic. If this happens to be your first trip to my blog, I am a big fan of using Workbooks to accomplish almost all your data visualization needs, observability of your Azure resources, inventory, even querying cost management and Azure Policy. In this post I’ll show you how to …
Did you know that your Azure Policy data is in Azure Resource Graph? It is under the policyresources table. Since it is in Azure Resource Graph that means we can query it from Azure Workbooks, and create Workbooks like my inventory workbook. If you’re not familiar with Azure Resource Graph I have a primer you …
There’s a new agent for Azure Monitor. Naturally, at some point you’ll need to deploy this agent. And if we’re talking cloud, you’ll probably need to do it at scale. Even doing it on 50 servers is more than I would want to touch by hand At scale, your first thought might be PowerShell. While …
In case you haven’t heard there’s a new agent in town. Its called the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA), this agent is brand new, re-written from the ground up and is going to replace the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) currently used by Log Analytics. This post will serve as both informational and opinion about the new …
This is simultaneously something I’ve been very excited to give you readers a post about and something that’s often asked about as a feature for Azure Monitor. We now have the ability to natively monitor SSL certificates with Azure Monitor and Application Insights availability test. You may remember my old post on Availability test, the …
Previously I showed you how you can use Bicep to deploy Log Analytics, App Insights, Azure Sentinel, Azure Monitor for VMs, Azure Monitor for Containers. As well as linked Automation Accounts for Change Tracking and Update Management. This week I have several Bicep templates for you. Data collection for Log Analytics, as well as saved …
When deploying resources to Azure, you have several options, the Azure Portal, PowerShell, Azure Resource Management (ARM) Templates, and now we have Bicep templates. In this post I’ll share a Bicep template I’ve made to help you deploy Log Analytics, the backbone of Azure Monitor, Sentinel and Security Center. For the operations monitoring Application Insights, …