Advanced Azure Workbooks – Parameters as Datasets

Workbooks are quite amazing. Its quite often I look at someone else’s work in a Workbook and blown away, not knowing that you could do whatever it is that I saw. One such amazing thing Workbooks can do is Datasets as Parameters. Meaning we can get data from Log Analytics, Azure Resource Graph, Application Insights, …

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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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Azure Monitor, Sentinel QuickStart Workbook templates

If you’ve followed me at all over the last few years, I make a lot of workbooks. I have a number of them on my github. I have these workbooks for your usage, completely free. LogicApps/Azure Sentinel Playbooks Azure Automation Update Management Azure File Sync Syslog Windows Event Log But now I’m putting out the …

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Overview of Azure Monitor, Security Center & Sentinel

In the past few months I’ve spoken with multiple Microsoft employees and even Microsoft MVPs that don’t understand Azure Sentinel, Azure Security Center, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics and whats the difference. There seems to be some confusion around these products and how they are used together.  I recently put together a diagram for a …

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Monitor Website Availability with Application Insights

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 …

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Kusto Query Language: the PowerShell of query languages?

I don’t usually get into speculation or predictions. More often than not they turn out wrong. However, something that I’ve been thinking about is the Kusto Query Language, which is the language behind many of my recent posts on Azure Log Analytics. But the PowerShell of query languages? PowerShell is pretty ubiquitous at this point, …

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