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, …
Today I want to show you how you can use icons, thresholds and heatmaps in Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel Workbooks. These have long been things I’ve used in almost all my workbooks. Along with grouping and showing resource icons, these are what I consider nice touches that take your workbooks from a nice idea …
This is the second post in some Azure Workbooks quick tips. You can find the first one here. As your Azure environment grows, you’re likely to encounter situations where you have 2 or more subscriptions. Or if you are using Azure Lighthouse you might have dozens or hundreds of subscriptions under your management. This can …
One of my favorite tricks when building Azure Monitor or Azure Sentinel workbooks is to include the Azure Resource specific icons next to resources. For metric based resources the icons are including for you automatically when using Grid visualization. But for logs, you need to bring in ‘_ResourceId’ in Log Analytics. For Azure Resourec Graph …
A common request I get is how to import one of my Azure Monitor Workbooks into Azure. In this post I’ll show you several ways to import them. Here are some of my Workbooks you can import. Ultimate Azure Inventory Azure SQL LogicApps/Azure Sentinel Playbooks Azure Automation Update Management Azure File Sync Syslog Windows Event …
Today I’m excited to finally share with you something that I’ve been working on for weeks. This project entailed many many hours of work. It is, An Azure Inventory Dashboard using Azure Monitor Workbooks. The original version of this Workbook was shown in my Workbooks video I made last year. In that same video I …
In my previous post I showed you how to collect and parse the FSLogix event log with Log Analytics. In this post I will show you how to use that event log to calculate WVD profile load time. Calculating logon time is one of those things that can provide value into our users experience. And …