Log Analytics WVD Query Examples

Last year I did a project building monitoring in Log Analytics for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). I am providing these Log Analytics WVD Query Examples as is to help anyone that may be wanting to monitor WVD with Log Analytics. You can find the full github repo here These are some example queries based on …

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Building JSON Payload in Powershell

When we’re building JSON payload in Powershell, there are a number of things to consider. What are our object types in Powershell? How to combine multiple Powershell Objects to one JSON object? How is the API going to read and parse that payload? For the purposes of this post I’ll be demoing against the Log …

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Log Analytics Substring and Trim

In a previous post I showed you how to convert strings and summarize the data, in that same post I mentioned some of my weather data was coming in as strings. In this post I have a similar issue. The humidity field is a string, and it contains %. So I will show you how …

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Must Install Azure Monitor Solutions

In our Log Analytics workspace under the Azure Monitor umbrella, we have a number of predefined monitoring solutions. These are some of the ones I would consider to be a no-brainer installs in any Log Analytics workspace. The only reason really, to not install them would be if you’re simply not using the related product. …

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Add Custom Performance Counters Log Analytics

Did you know you can add any performance counter found in Performance Monitor on your Windows servers to Log Analytics work space in Azure Monitor? Yea I didn’t either. I’ve been working on a project for Microsoft Consulting Services working with a MS Product Group, all of which is under NDA. However, I can tell …

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Azure Log Analytics Server Performance Report

Having worked with SCOM for a number of years, one of things I grew to really like is some of the performance reporting available from the SCOM Data Warehouse. Presently, Log Analytics offers no real out of box performance reporting. Some of the solutions offer dashboards and things like that. In this post I’ll be …

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