Azure Monitor alert time period vs. ago()

Every once in a while you might need to create an alert which runs a Log Analytics or Application Insights query. When designing the alert you need to define some attributes: the query, the time period, the frequency and the threshold. This article focuses on a not well know fact…

Alert on requests/s for Azure App Service

A customer of mine had the following rule configured: Alert configurationIt was his expectation that this rule would be triggered when in the last five minutes at some point more that 200 requests/s were being made to the App Service. Unfortunately this is not the case. The rule will…

Format of logs archived to storage through Azure Monitor to change

If you are archiving diagnostic logs [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-archive-diagnostic-logs] or activity logs [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-archive-activity-log] 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…