You may have seen my previous post on collecting weather data from WeatherUnderground. With this post I will show you how to collect Ambient Weather data from the API with Azure Functions. Why a new post? A few reasons. One, that post was with the experimental Windows PowerShell Azure Functions, which are no longer available. …
My next post in our Migrating from Orchestrator series with MVP Donnie Taylor. In my last post I showed you how to setup Action Groups for Azure Automation, LogicApps and Azure Functions for Azure Monitor Alerts. In a previous post I’ve shown how you can Parse an Azure Monitor Alert with Azure Functions and PowerShell …
Using custom logs in Log Analytics is a surprisingly easy thing to do. It can be fun, but of course ultimately used for business related purposes. You can use a Logic Apps to submit, PowerShell or Azure Functions as well. Ultimately any language that can make a REST call and format JSON can submit to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …