How do you spend your time and why? Have you filled your days with work, errands, and odd jobs just because, at some point, you developed the belief that DIY is always smarter than delegating? This post re-evaluates that belief, starting with a practical example: lawn care. From there, I’ll bring the concept of DIY…
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…
You may have heard the saying that “today, every company is a software company.” In other words, we rely on IT folks to do more than just keep our digital systems up and running. Now they play a big part in helping to grow the business and fend off digital disruption. But keeping up with…
This blog post series will cover two approaches which can be used to help to customize how alerts are formatted when they come from Azure Monitor for Log Analytics queries. For this first blog post we will take a simple approach to making these alerts more useful – cleaning up the underlying query. In Azure…
Recently Microsoft announced that they will be fully moving the OMS portal into the Azure portal and that the current OMS mobile will be deprecated as well. (If you are interested there is an open area for feedback on this topic available here). One of the side-benefits of the OMS portal was that once you…
A colleague of mine recently reached out to me to ask for a query which would display key performance counters for each known server (items like CPU, free disk space, free memory, total memory). In the first blog post of this series we created a pretty simple query to make that happen but the query…
A colleague of mine recently reached out to me to ask for a query which would display key performance counters for each known server (items like CPU, free disk space, free memory, total memory) in Log Analytics. In the first blog post of this series, we created a pretty simple query handle this question but…
A colleague of mine recently reached out to me to ask for a query which would display key performance counters for each known server (items like CPU, free disk space, free memory, total memory). The answer to this question is actually more complex than I would have expected as it ended up that I needed…
If you want to cut costs in Information Technology, it may help to look at things from a different perspective. Let’s start with a poll – what are the top 3 tasks that you should be working on right now? Let’s take those three tasks and ask two questions of each: Are each of these…
At MMS, Aleksandar mentioned that he had converted my existing Azure Automation solution to provide visualization for Log Analytics to the new query language which has now been deployed across all Microsoft Log Analytics workspaces. I have updated the version which is in TechNet Galleries to reflect that change. Converting this solution would have been…
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