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Azure and Hybrid Cloud Technologies
Blog Migration
Hi all, We have decided to move the Blog to a new...
Date: 03/28/2019
Azure Log Analytics: Looking at data and costs
At some stage, you either need to add a new set of data to Log Analytics or even look at your usage...
Date: 02/08/2019
Azure Log Analytics: Disk Space Usage – Part 3
This is a minor update I have been meaning to post for quite a few weeks now.Series Decompose...
Date: 02/06/2019
Azure Log Analytics: Service Level Agreement (SLA) part 2
My post yesterday got a little long so, I’ve done a part2 to show how else you might group your...
Date: 11/21/2018
Azure Log Analytics: Service Level Agreement (SLA) part 1
This week there was a good discussion on how to show an SLA view in Log Analytics, which was similar...
Date: 11/20/2018
Azure Log Analytics: A little more on Parse and Print
**** this post was restored, as the original was deleted by mistake ****In my last post I wrote...
Date: 11/20/2018
Azure Log Analytics: A little more about Usage
In post and post we’ve spoken about Usage but its a topic that comes up a lot. I have a two step...
Date: 10/30/2018
Azure Log Analytics: Do you need some demo data?
This article (as a test) was also published to my LinkedIn feed Sometimes you need some demo data to...
Date: 09/12/2018
A decision tree for Azure Networking
Whether you are planning to use Express Route or VPN tunnels to connect your data centers to Azure,...
Date: 09/12/2018
Building an Azure Event Grid app. Part 5: CI and pushing to DockerHub with VSTS
In this part of the series I’d like to make sure that whenever I change the code for my Event Grid...
Date: 08/11/2018
Building an Azure Event Grid app. Part 4: Adding a service principal to the Event Grid Topic.
For my scenario I created the Azure Event Grid Topic in my subscription but I’d like clients outside...
Date: 08/10/2018
Building an Azure Event Grid app. Part 3: Turning the publisher app into a Docker image.
Why do I want my publisher app to be a Docker image? Because I’d potentially like to be able to run...
Date: 08/10/2018
Building an Azure Event Grid app. Part 2: Adding a Logic App subscriber to the Event Grid Topic.
I want to have something that subscribes to the Event Grid Topic, and when a new event is published...
Date: 08/10/2018
Building an Azure Event Grid app. Part 1: Event Grid Topic and a .NET Core custom app event publisher.
In order to have a sample “data feed” for an application I wanted to use Azure Event Grid to create...
Date: 08/10/2018
Your Cloud Shell session will be ephemeral
I love the Azure Cloud Shell, and the recent addition of the Monaco editor is great, but I opened it...
Date: 07/19/2018
Learn for Free KQL–the language Log Analytics and other services use
KQL, the Kusto Query Language, is used to query Azure's services. This course will teach you the...
Date: 07/13/2018
Use SSL certificates on your Azure WebApp
Using SSL certificates with LetsEncrypt On the following post we are going to explain how quickly...
Date: 06/14/2018
Site-to-Site VPN between pfSense Firewall and Azure using BGP
Site-to-Site VPN between pfSense and Azure with BGP to allow dynamic discovery of your networks This...
Date: 06/06/2018
Azure Log Analytics: Disk Space Usage – Part 2
My previous post on this topic is one of the most viewed (according to our blog analytics in the...
Date: 05/17/2018
Azure Log Analytics: Queries, Are you looking for a pattern? RegEx
RegEx is a common way of finding data . It was helpful recently when Jon needed a small bit of help...
Date: 05/11/2018
Do more with Microsoft Azure
There are a series of webinars covering Azure solution and business scenarios, which you can...
Date: 05/10/2018
Linux Containers on Windows (LCOW)
Until recently, when developing on a Windows 10 machine, one needed to toggle between developing...
Date: 05/03/2018
Azure Log Analytics: Queries, Has the Hostname been changed?
The question was asked, how do you find a Computer using Log Analytics that has had its name...
Date: 05/02/2018
Azure DevOps: Use VSTS conditions to control build or release flow
I was asked recently about how to use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) conditions to run different...
Date: 04/29/2018
The most basic basic of OMS / Log Analytics is….
Updated post (27th June2018):The Log Analytics landing page has been updated...
Date: 04/16/2018
Log Analytics: Usage and Estimated Costs – update
Back at the start of April Clive posted about an update around usage and estimated costs for Log...
Date: 04/11/2018
Azure Security Center – Custom Alerts
Many my clients have asked can you extend the alerting in Azure Security Center(ASC). The answer is...
Date: 04/04/2018
Azure Standard Load Balancer with HA ports - what it means for your network and security stack
You may have had the chance to configure a networking cluster of firewalls, proxies, WAFs or load...
Date: 04/03/2018
Log Analytics: Usage and Estimated Costs
Recently this blade in the Azure Portal was updated for Log Analytics. Mostly this is just an update...
Date: 04/03/2018
Azure Application Gateway uses the Load Balancer
I just had an interesting discussion around the use of the Azure Application Gateway (AppGW) and the...
Date: 03/27/2018
Azure DevOps: automate App Service slot swaps in your VSTS release pipeline
Choosing Azure App Services to host a web application means that you are using a managed platform...
Date: 03/19/2018
OMS Monitoring solution for Azure Backup using Azure Log analytics–has been released
A working solution (for the new vaults) has been missing for a...
Date: 02/09/2018
What’s new in Log Analytics?
Latest updates from https://docs.loganalytics.io/docs/Language-Reference/Change-log Jan 7, 2018 New...
Date: 12/19/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Queries, the basics explained - Part 4
I’ll finish with some more examples, building on what we discussed in part 3. SecurityEvent | where...
Date: 12/18/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Queries, the basics explained – Part 3
Sometimes unlike post 2, you may not know where to start, but hopefully you know some piece of data...
Date: 12/16/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Queries, the basics explained – Part 2
Now that we have opened our first tab for producing a query in part 1 lets look at, some other...
Date: 12/15/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Queries, the basics explained – Part 1
Sometimes I’m guilty of jumping in to the deep-end and skipping the basics. Update: This post end up...
Date: 12/14/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Finding CPUs with perf counters
Today I saw a question on how find the count of CPUs that a server has, maybe you need this for...
Date: 12/13/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Disk Space Usage–Part1
Often for customer demos I show this particular example or get questions as its pinned to my Azure...
Date: 12/08/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Linux Groups
Earlier today I needed to look for some specific Linux machines, and a process name in Syslog.If you...
Date: 12/07/2017
Great to see OMS NPM now supports Expressroute
Please see here for more...
Date: 11/09/2017
Free Azure learning resources for Customers and partners
The Azure Learning team has published a set of free learning paths for customers and partners:...
Date: 10/18/2017
Cloud Tech 10: Only have 10mins to learn about Azure then...
Take a look at the 10min sessions Mark delivers, here is this weeks https://aka.ms/CloudTech10...
Date: 10/17/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Cross Workspace Query
This was announced at Ignite last week, see...
Date: 10/03/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Dynamic Arrays
In my first post on parsing we looked for Eventlog data and parsed the info to get User names from...
Date: 10/02/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Sorting Events
Jon (who also works at Microsoft) was asking me how to use an ‘or’ to filter EventIDs, I thought I’d...
Date: 09/29/2017
Azure Log Analytics: Using Perfmon data
Updated: As last night the Settings moved to the Azure portal Today I was looking at Perfmon data...
Date: 09/20/2017