Monitor Azure File Sync with Azure Monitor

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 …

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Azure Monitor Alerting at Scale: IaaS

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 …

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Log Analytics Linux Agent Installation Error 61

If like me, you have a shiny new Ubuntu running on your HyperV server, you want to install the Log Analytics agent for Linux. You run the install command below. and then you get a nice error. “Pyhton is not configured or Python does not support ctypes on this system, installation cannot continue.” This error …

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Extracting Nested Fields in Kusto

PSST: you could read this post. Orrrr you could check out the new 2.0 version, which has way more examples. Extracting Nested Fields in Kusto 2.0 – Cloud, Systems Management and Automation (cloudsma.com)     Pretty much every blog I’ve produced is a real world solution that I have used in production. Sometimes they are …

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Azure Advent Calendar: Azure Monitor Workbooks

The Azure Advent Calendar is a great idea from Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper. Community members the world over have contributed videos pertaining to Azure. My video is on Azure Monitor Workbooks. In the video I take you through many of the useful features of Workbooks. Video Outline Below is the rough video outline with …

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Azure Monitor Alerting with Powershell

In my opinion, part of monitoring with Azure Monitor is being able to alert at scale. When we say alerting at scale this means a few things to me. First, being able to create alerts in a programmatic fashion. Second, it means creating alerts that cover multiple resources at once. For instance, creating a CPU …

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Azure Monitor: Management Tips from the Field

Since I’ve started working in Azure full time for the last few years I’ve now seen a number of environments. This post will outline my Azure Monitor Management Tips to make your life easier. And how you should set it up depending on your needs. Given my focus has largely been on Monitoring, these tips …

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