Four Strategies for Cost-Effective Azure Monitoring and Log Analytics
Embark on a journey through the labyrinth of Azure's cost management with this blog. Dive deep into the art of balancing expenditures with performance in Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics. Discover the strategies that blend smart data ingestion with careful retention tactics, and learn how to employ the finesse of Kusto Query Language to transform data tables into bastions of efficiency. Peek inside for an in-depth exploration of the four pillars that will fortify your cloud environment against unnecessary spending while maintaining data integrity and high performance.Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (Preview)
We are pleased to announced the public preview of Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts for Azure and Azure landing zone customers built by the Azure landing zone product group. The Baseline alerts 'framework' is built using Azure Policy with a predefined list of platform / infrastructure alerts that provides a flexible, scalable and consistent way to deploy alerts into your Azure environment.Mastering your cloud journey: Essentials to Innovating, Migrating and Modernizing, on Azure
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Exciting News: AMBA Portal Accelerator is now Generally Available!
We are thrilled to announce that the Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts-Azure Landing Zones (AMBA-ALZ) Portal Accelerator has officially reached General Availability (GA). This achievement is a big step forward in our goal to make onboarding and simplify monitoring your Azure environment regardless of whether or not you are fully aligned to Azure Landing Zones. Screenshot of Azure Landing Zone portal Accelerator What is the AMBA Portal Accelerator? As we introduced AMBA into the ALZ portal experience (not to be confused with this accelerator!) and with the increased flexibility AMBA-ALZ provided for the preferred action notification types, this introduced a need to provide a post ALZ-AMBA Portal to accommodate those notification types that required an existing resource (Azure Function, Event Hub, and Logic App) and in the case of deploying ALZ possibly for the first time these resources may not be present. The AMBA-ALZ Portal Accelerator is designed to simplify the process of setting up baseline alerts, helping you boost your observability maturity in your Azure environment with minimal effort or expertise. You can set up alerts faster and with more confidence. You'll get timely notifications about critical metrics and log anomalies that might signal potential issues with your Azure workloads. What Scenarios Does The Accelerator Help Address? There are a few scenarios as to where the Accelerator can help meet you where you are in your journey: You are an existing Azure customer and looking to mature your observability posture (and at the same time with low effort move one step closer to being aligned to Azure Landing Zones You have an existing Azure Landing Zones implementation prior to AMBA being released and are looking to update your environment to include AMBA-ALZ You may be new to Azure and deploying Azure Landing Zones (the recommended way to onboard to Azure) and wanting to use Azure Function, Event Hub, and Logic App Notification Types Getting Started To begin using the AMBA-ALZ Portal Accelerator, navigate to https://aka.ms/amba/alz/portal or click the "Deploy to Azure" button on the documentation page. Detailed deployment instructions and further guidance are available to help you get started quickly and efficiently. If you have any further feedback please use the following links: 💬 - Feedback GitHub Issues: https://aka.ms/amba/issues 💬 - Feedback survey: https://aka.ms/ambaSurvey
Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup is now generally available
We are happy to share that built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup is now generally available! (Read our earlier blog post for more context around the evolution of backup alerting) With this solution, users receive default alerts for critical scenarios related to backup security and job failures, that are integrated with Azure Monitor. You can monitor these alerts at scale via either the Azure Monitor dashboard or via Backup center, and route these alerts to various notification channels of choice. To recap, below are the main benefits of using built-in Azure Monitor alerts for backup: Ability to configure notifications to a wide range of notification channels supported by Azure Monitor, for example, email, ITSM, Webhooks, Logic Apps, and so on. Flexibility to select which scenarios to get notified for Ability to have a consistent alerts management experience for multiple Azure services including backup, with at-scale management capabilities In addition, some additional enhancements have been made to this solution since public preview: 1. Expanded coverage of security alert scenarios: You can now use built-in Azure Monitor alerts to get alerted on additional critical operations like modification of backup policy, disabling of multi-user authorization, and so on. 2. Enhanced experience to migrate to Azure Monitor alerts: If you are currently using the older classic alerts solution, it is recommended to move to Azure Monitor alerts for its various benefits. Today, Azure Backup provides a guided experience via Backup center that allows you to make this switch with just a few clicks. 3. Vault-level properties to govern alert settings for vaults: Every vault now has a 'monitoring settings' property which you can leverage to specify whether classic alerts should be turned off, and whether built-in Azure Monitor alerts should be generated for job failures. You can query these settings at-scale for your vaults using Azure Resource Graph, and also write custom ARM templates and Azure Policies to deploy and govern these settings for your vaults. Learn more to get started As always, do feel free to reach out to AskAzureBackupTeam@microsoft.com for any questions or feedback!
