In August 2017 Microsoft released a new query language for Log Analytics which will be the default query language as of late October (*see the graphic below for the message you get if you haven’t upgraded your workspace yet*). With this change, all blog posts which I have written about Log Analytics prior to that…
A while back I wrote a blog post where I showcased a sample solution which provides visualization of performance for servers (Windows & Linux) and client Operating Systems. Since that blog post was written the query language for Log Analytics has been upgraded. This update changes any pre-built solutions so that they also need to…
In Log Analytics you can create an alert which runs on a specific schedule frequency which will alert when the search query matches the criteria that you specify. That alert can send an email, activate a webhook, activate a runbook or activate an ITSM Action (an example of this configuration is shown below). What this…
One of the challenges in Log Analytics is how to effectively work with more powerful and longer Log Analytics queries which are available with the new query language. To edit longer queries we can open them with the Azure Log Analytics console (shown below), however this console takes and represents the query transferred from the…
I noticed a great new piece of preview functionality is now available in Azure Automation – you now have the ability to run Python 2 scripts! The timing on this being available was a great one for me personally as one of my IaaS VM’s ceased to exist today and that VM was the one…
This is the final post of a six post series which will provide details on a solution I have been working on which will gather information from a variety of sources to forecast how much electricity will be generated by a residential solar panel system. This example shows how OMS can be used to gather…
Do you want to maximize the benefits you can get from your Log Analytics workspace? Start by controlling the amount of data you are uploading to data to what you really need. I recently had a subscription where I needed to reign in data usage to the workspace quickly but I needed to do so…
This is the fifth in a six part series which will provide details on a solution I have been working on which will gather information from a variety of sources to forecast how much electricity will be generated by a residential solar panel system. This example shows how OMS can be used to gather data…
This is the fourth in a six part series which will provide details on a solution I have been working on which will gather information from a variety of sources to forecast how much electricity will be generated by a residential solar panel system. This example shows how OMS can be used to gather data…
This is the third in a six part series which will provide details on a solution I have been working on which will gather information from a variety of sources to forecast how much electricity will be generated by a residential solar panel system. This example shows how OMS can be used to gather data…
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