Azure Monitor Alert Reports with Azure Resource Graph

In this post I’ll show you how to extract just about any Azure Monitor Alert information with Azure Resource Graph. With this data we can build some pretty neat Azure Monitor Alert reports. For Azure Monitor alerts we have two tables in Azure Resource Graph. Alertsmanagementresources and the resources table. Alerts management resources table has …

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Azure Workbooks: Query Azure Subscription Limits

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 …

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Build Azure Policy Compliance Workbook

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 …

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Deploy Azure Monitor Agent at Scale

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 …

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Monitor SSL Certificates with Azure Monitor

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 …

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