Included in this month’s Microsoft monthly software update releases are fixes for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – that affects some older versions of Windows. The Wall Street Journal and Fox News have quoted Microsoft and described this as a in their article…
In the first blog post of this series we showed how you can make your alerts more useful by cleaning up the underlying query (which provides a quick way to include only what is relevant in the alert). In this blog post we will show how to use the power of Azure Automation to customize…
While I was working on an updated Flow I ran into a challenge where data which isn’t regularly written to Log Analytics may not be there when I need it to be. For my example, I have a Log Analytics custom log which contains the current state of the windows in my house (open or closed).…
Recently I was working with a colleague and we were trying to track down where specific data had been stored in a Log Analytics workspace. Specifically, we were using the Upgrade Readiness solution and we were tracking down where the data was being written when we updated applications which were in a “Not reviewed” state.…
Recently we had a requirement to provide more than basic CPU threshold queries for Log Analytics. We have been watching the upcoming dynamic threshold functionality to see if this will cover what we need. However, this appears to only be available for systems running in Azure. For our on-prem systems, we have developed the following…
In this first part of this blog series we introduced our solution for ping monitoring within Azure Monitor via Log Analytics and Azure Automation. In this blog post, we will showcase how we can query the data in Log Analytics, generate alerts in Azure Monitor for ping failures and how we can visualize this information.…
Recently we were faced with a modern version of the “monitor-the-monitor” question. For background, “monitor-the-monitor” basically asks – who monitors the monitoring system to know that it’s working? The end result of this question is often a second (potentially lighter) monitoring system as a secondary check that the monitoring system itself is functional. In this…
I’ve been working on the development of what (for me at least) is a pretty complicated Microsoft Flow. This flow provides “intelligent” notification on whether to open or close the windows at my house. I’m doing this as a practical example to better learn Microsoft Flow, to increase energy efficiency, and to get some fresh…
While I was working on an updated Flow I ran into an interesting requirement for my underlying Log Analytics queries. I needed to output a single row of information which contained items which were not specifically related to each other. In this blog post I’ll show a quick trick that I put together which lets…
Are you looking for a quick way to communicating on items which may be impacting your services in Azure? How about adding a “news flash” on your Azure dashboard. For background on dashboards in Azure these are previous blog posts I have done on this topic: Creating dashboards with content spanning Log Analytics, Application Insights…
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