IT professional for more than a decade; held different roles in software engineering, cloud solution architecture and sales. Cloud and open source enthusiast. Working as EMEA Solution Lead @Google.
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent is able to send data to more than one workspace at the same time. Unfortunately only a single workspace at a time can be configured through the Azure Portal. You can either manually access the agents and configure it yourself through the Control Panel or use some kind of automation.…
Security is top of mind for most Azure customers. To have peace of mind when it comes to security for assets running on Azure, Microsoft continuously works to improve on the security recommendations Azure Security Center provides: Recommendation details and affected resources Starting now Azure Security Center in the Standard pricing tier will recommend Azure DDoS Protection for virtual networks as an additional layer of protection against attacks.…
It just has become easier to manage Azure Security Center at scale. While not all aspects of Azure Security Center can be automated yet Microsoft just released updated Swagger definitions for working with Azure Security Center. This includes an updated documentation where you can directly try requests to the API against your tenants you have access to.…
In a time before cross-resource queries were possible the Application Insights Connector would copy data from Application Insights to a Log Analytics workspace. With the emergence of cross-resource queries the duplication of data is not required anymore as queries can be sent to both (or even more) entities at the same time in real time.…
If you are archiving diagnostic logs or activity logs to a storage account through Azure Monitor be aware that on Nov 1, 2018 there will be a breaking change in the format. The current format of the PT1H.json file in the storage account uses a JSON array or records.…
When using Azure Backup to manage (geo-)distributed backups across a company you may find that the Azure Backup Reports with Power BI is limited to a single storage account. Unfortunately the reporting telemetry coming from Azure Backup needs to be written to a storage account that is in the same region as the Recovery Services Vault.…
Photo by Ilya Pavlov / Unsplash Change Tracking is a versatile feature that allows to monitor changes on a system (both Windows and Linux). Change tracking covers software installation, changes to services, daemons, Registry and the file system. This is available for both cloud based (Azure, AWS, GCP), on-premises and service provider hosted systems (given network connectivity to Azure).…
Photo by Matt Artz / Unsplash In many scenarios there is the requirement to enrich or lookup data with meta information from the infrastructure. In this scenario a file with machine, location and other meta information was placed during deployment on the VM for both Azure and AWS.…
Photo by rawpixel / Unsplash When setting up Azure File Sync one of the requirements is to have the Azure PowerShell Cmdlets (AzureRM) installed. Many customers have proxies deployed which control internet egress. Many of these also use authentication to secure internet access.…
Photo by Clem Onojeghuo / Unsplash To automate the pipeline of the theme I use for my blog to be built and automatically deployed it is required to interact with the Ghost API. Nothing fancy. This writeup explains how to retrieve the Bearer token through the Ghost API with cURL.…