One of the many things an Azure Monitor Alert can do is trigger Azure Functions. As I mentioned in my alerting post, every alert contains an underlying schema. I will once again be using the Common Alert Schema for Azure Monitor, however, this will still work with the old schema. You’ll need an alert if …
Underneath every Azure Monitor Alert is a Schema. I talked a little bit about the schemas here. For this post I’ll be talking about the Common Alert Schema. However, everything I show can still be done with the non common alert schema. In this post I’ll show you how to examine the Azure Monitor Alert …
If you saw my Update Management post on Workbooks you know I really like them. But if you read that post then you also know I really want a way for my workbooks to dynamically select resources, or in my case dynamically select all my Log Analytics workspaces. Well I found out how to do …
This post assumes you have some basic knowledge of Azure Monitor. If you are not familiar with Alerts in Azure Monitor you can read more about them here. This post might be a little different from my other posts in that I’ll be covering several topics under Alerting. Log Search vs Metric Alert Within …
Have you checked out the Case scalar function? If not this post is all about what the capabilities of Case scalar function are. However, as I mentioned previously, there is a lot of good documentation around Kusto, and then there are others that could use more documentation, this is one of those examples. From the …
Are you using Azure Automation Update Management? If not why not? It’s free for your Azure VMs. You can also use the Log Analytics portion by itself to track Update status. That said, the default dashboards are just OK, but are impossible to use with multiple subscriptions. Especially if you have multiple Log Analytics workspaces …
As with anything in Azure there are multiple ways to skin a cat. We can send logs to our Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace with powershell. Or we can use a powershell based Azure Function, however, in this post I’ll show you how to grab data from an API and use that data to create …