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…
In this blog post we will show how you can effectively debug sub-queries used in assembling more complex queries in Log Analytics. For this blog post I’ll work on a reverse of the original blog post concept. In the first blog post we wrote a query to determine if it makes sense to open the…
The data ingestion API’s have made it really easy to get data into Log Analytics, but they still require a little bit of coding knowledge. Or it used to take a bit of coding knowledge – not anymore! This blog post will give the steps required to make a drop dead simple method to send…
It’s easy to visualize performance information in Log Analytics, but how can you create indicate the trend of these counters? This blog post will showcase how the Linear Regression functionality can be used in Log Analytics to provide a trend line as one example for this functionality. This blog post will show: How Server performance…
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