This unique blog post has a guest blogger. You may have heard of them before … Welcome ChatGPT! As my readers may remember, I recently posted a blog article about my thoughts on Grammarly. So what does ChatGPT think about Grammarly? The focus of my discussion with ChatGPT was to see how his responses would…
In this blog post, we will discuss Grammarly. Grammarly is a third-party solution to help with providing more effective written communication. The previous blog post introduced the Speaker Coach functionality available in Teams. A coworker recommended I check out Grammarly (thank you, Greg!). Grammarly helps with written communications by providing recommendations for changes in your…
Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides recommendations on various items related to Azure resources (and on-prem resources via ARC). For example, one of the recommendation types focused on vulnerabilities that may exist on virtual machines (VMs). Microsoft provides two built-in vulnerability assessment solutions for VMs. One is “Microsoft Defender vulnerability management,” and the other is the…
This three-part blog series will introduce three tools I have been using that can significantly increase how well we communicate. The first is the feature in Teams called “Speaker Coach.” Speaker Coach is turned on while you are in a meeting by opening More options and choosing “Turn on Speaker Coach” as shown below. Figure…
This blog post will show the next step in how to create a custom alert format using a combination of Kusto and Azure Automation. In the first part of this blog post series, I introduced the steps I am utilizing to provide what I refer to as a “human readable alert”. This blog post series…
This blog post will show how to create a custom alert format using a combination of Kusto and Azure Automation. This process is being used to overcome a current inability to generate custom alert formats discussed in the previous blog post of this series. I previously blogged on this topic but the solution has evolved…
In this blog post, we will disassemble the alert structure from Azure for metrics and logs, compare what is included in the alert, and point out challenges in the alert functionality currently available in Azure. In the first part of this blog series, we introduced the new dynamic threshold functionality available in Azure’s monitor. So,…
Some excellent data is available to be queried via Kusto using AzureDiagnostics. For example, the ResultDescription field has almost all of the relevant information, but it’s in a format that needs to be parsed to grab specific fields from the column. Below is a sample query to parse the particular fields within this column. We…
Warning, this blog post is going way into the weeds of Kusto and Log Analytics. Let’s say for a minute that you wanted to call http_request_post to post some data to an API. The query below is a two part query. The first part identifies any anomalies in usage data (a good query to check…
Over the last decade, I have known that the day would arrive when I would not be renewed as a Microsoft MVP. I would like to say that I am not disappointed, but even knowing that something is eventually coming does not mean that you are ready for it. The truth is that being a…
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