When we’re building JSON payload in Powershell, there are a number of things to consider. What are our object types in Powershell? How to combine multiple Powershell Objects to one JSON object? How is the API going to read and parse that payload? For the purposes of this post I’ll be demoing against the Log …
Sometimes we may want to programmatically turn our Azure Functions off or on or do other management tasks with them. This post will show you how you can Manage Azure Functions with Managed Identity Logic Apps. What you’ll need: Azure Function Logic App Azure Active Directory (pretty much always included now right?) Setup Managed Identity …
It might be time to upgrade your Hyper-v Lab. Surely you’re not still using the same hardware for your lab from 4 years ago, right? If you’re at all like me, you need a lab to test and play with new technologies. This means periodically upgrading your hardware. This can be an expensive proposition, especially …
On April 1st I was notified that I was awarded Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP. To say I was excited would be an understatement. But to really understand how cool it is to me I have to take you back a few years. About five or six years ago I didn’t even know what a …
In my previous post I showed how you can setup a website availability monitor within Application Insights. That post gave us some data to use and play with. In this post, I’m going to show you how you can light up your world with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in Application Insights. Unlike the Website Availability …
In a previous post I showed you how to convert strings and summarize the data, in that same post I mentioned some of my weather data was coming in as strings. In this post I have a similar issue. The humidity field is a string, and it contains %. So I will show you how …
If you’ve read my blog before then you probably know that Application Insights uses the same query language as Log Analytics and that Log Analytics are both services under the Azure Monitor name. So, why not delve a little into application monitoring? In this post I’ll show you how to monitor website availability. Along with …