My next post in our Migrating from Orchestrator series with MVP Donnie Taylor. In my last post I showed you how to setup Action Groups for Azure Automation, LogicApps and Azure Functions for Azure Monitor Alerts. In a previous post I’ve shown how you can Parse an Azure Monitor Alert with Azure Functions and PowerShell …
This is my second post in our Migrating from Orchestrator series. In Donnie’s last post he showed you how you can trigger automation with EventGrid. In this post I’ll show you how you can trigger automations from Azure Monitor Alerts. Triggering Orchestrator runbooks from SCOM Alerts was one of the more popular type of triggers …
Using custom logs in Log Analytics is a surprisingly easy thing to do. It can be fun, but of course ultimately used for business related purposes. You can use a Logic Apps to submit, PowerShell or Azure Functions as well. Ultimately any language that can make a REST call and format JSON can submit to …
Azure File Sync is a neat service that extends your on-prem data center into the cloud. Since this about how to Monitor Azure File Sync, it assumes you are already familiar with the service and or already have it setup. As I will be going over how to setup monitoring for it, you need to …
This is my first post in our series on migrating from Orchestrator. You can see the announcement post here, which is also where I will keep track of all our posts. Donnie’s first post on Automation options within Azure got us started with whats available. One of the first things you need to do no …
In this post I will expand upon the methods I showed here and show you how I do IaaS Alerting in Azure Monitor. As a refresher I believe alerting at scale is: Programmatic Alert Creation Automatically adds/removes resources Having read my previous posts you’ll also know that I prefer a Log Analytics workspace for Metric …
Orchestrator is Dead, Long Live Automation If you reading this blog and are considering installing Orchestrator 2016/2019 – stop. Don’t. Do not pass go, do not collect your salary. Save your time and energy. Seriously, we know other consultants that are still getting requests for proposals to install System Center Orchestrator, but now is not …