Azure Monitor - Alert Notification via Teams
Hi there, Bruno Gabrielli here again to talk about how to get alert notification using a Teams channel. Lots of customers are using Teams channel as notification mechanism in their alert management process. They find it very helpful because Teams can be used over mobile devices and browsers without relying on your company laptop.Azure Kubernetes Services - Start & Stop Your AKS Cluster on Schedule using Azure Automation
Hi everybody, here I am again to show you a possible way to start and stop your AKS cluster on schedule. Are you interested in spending diligently your money? Are you curious to find a way to align with Cost Optimization recommendation about shutting down unused virtual machine during non business hours or in dev/test environment on AKS? If your answer is 'Yes', then please read through.Azure Monitor: Audit Your Azure and Non-Azure SQL Server
Most of you probably know that SQL Server is capable of auditing security related information, such as access to a given database, record creation or deletion, configuration change and so on) according to the Audit configuration applied to a given instance or database. Why not storing this information in a Log Analytics workspace, leveraging the full power of Azure Monitor together with Microsoft Defender for Cloud or Microsoft Sentinel?Azure Monitor: Gain Observability Over Guest Users
Have you sent invitations to guest users and don't know about the status? Not sure if guest users are still active or can be removed? Do you want to check if guest users have App roles and group membership assigned? In this post, I provide one possible solution to answer the aforementioned questions.Azure Log Analytics - Data Retention By Type in Real Life
Hello everybody, Bruno here again together with my Azure Sentinel colleague sifriger (credits to you mate to have brought what we’re going to present to my attention). Today, I’ll walk you through the setting of different retention for a Azure Log Analytics workspace based on data types.Maintain Your Microsoft Monitoring Agent Up To Date With Azure Automation
Today, I am here again, to present one of the possible solutions to keep the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) installed on your virtual machine up to date with roughly 0 effort. The reason why I started playing with this theme, is because I couldn’t keep up with the latest and greatest MMA releases that comes as part of the Azure world, easily and in a time saving way.Azure Arc: How To Update Arc Agent Using Azure Automation
Today I would like to talk to you about a possible approach to keep the agent on Azure Arc enabled servers up-to-date. This agent, called Connected Machine (aka Arc agent), not being an extension cannot be updated automatically by the Azure platform itself (as for other extensions like MMA, AMA, Dependency agent, etc.) but its code is updated with improvements on an ongoing basis. You can check what is the latest version and what’s in it on the What's new with Azure Arc enabled servers agent Microsoft’ documentation page.How To Flush Microsoft Monitoring Agent Cache Using Azure Automation
The question of the day is how can we make sure our Log Analytics agent (aka Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA)) is always working properly to include an up to date configuration? Have you ever experienced a situation in which the MMA service was running but doing really nothing? Similar to a grey agent when referring to System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)? According to many online blogs and documentation, you have probably learned by now that flushing the MMA cache is quite easy, but it can result in something boring when have to be repeated frequently, so why not leverage Azure Automation?
