Did you know we can now monitor and alert on Key Vault Certificates and their expiration? I’m sure you did, there’s post after post of people showing this with Event Grid. So what’s the point of my post then? Well dear reader if you’ve ever read any of my posts or know anything about me, I …
So, you want to alert at scale in Azure. Come grab a seat and let me regale you with the pitfalls of resource types, subscription & resource group scopes, and Log Analytics. I have previously talked about Alerting at Scale with PowerShell in this post and how to do it with PowerShell in this post. …
In case you haven’t heard there’s a new agent in town. Its called the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA), this agent is brand new, re-written from the ground up and is going to replace the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) currently used by Log Analytics. This post will serve as both informational and opinion about the new …
Previously I showed you how you can use Bicep to deploy Log Analytics, App Insights, Azure Sentinel, Azure Monitor for VMs, Azure Monitor for Containers. As well as linked Automation Accounts for Change Tracking and Update Management. This week I have several Bicep templates for you. Data collection for Log Analytics, as well as saved …
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, …
You already know summarize in Kusto is pretty magical right? Well if not I’ll be going over some of its awesome sauce. In addition this post is going to talk about make-series and how it compares to summarize and when you might want to use each. Per the usual, my examples will be in Log …
The evaluate operator is fantastic tool in your Kusto tool belt. So much so that I have requested several times that it get added to Azure Resource Graph. However, the Evaluate Operator itself won’t run anything. You have to add one of its Plugins behind it. In this post I’ll show you how to use …