This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. "How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting" is a question that I've heard many times. Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where…
This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. "How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting" is a question that I've heard many times. Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where…
This problem is probably as old as there are monitoring tools on the market. "How can I exclude legitimately deallocated VMs from alerting" is a question that I've heard many times. Where most monitoring tools such as System Center Operations Manager have tooling around the concept of maintenance mode where…
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…
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…
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…
When using Azure Backup to manage (geo-)distributed backups across a company you may find that the Azure Backup Reports with Power BI [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-configure-reports] is limited to a single storage account. Unfortunately the reporting telemetry coming from Azure Backup needs to be written…
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.…