Reading Time: 1 minute In December, myself and Gregor Suttie (aka @gregor_suttie) will be hosting the 2019 Azure Advent Calendar. The idea is that every day in December a member of the Azure community will have the chance to showcase their Azure knowledge by recording a video of 20-30 minutes in length and having it listed Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes If, like me, you are running windows containers on an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and using RabbitMQ to communicate between containers and you want to scale up and down the VMSS based on queue size, then this article is for you! Things you will need An Installation of RabbitMQ Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever wanted to pin the results of an Azure Log Analytics query to an Azure Dashboard when the query returns no results? I know I have. Unfortunately, the pin to dashboard is greyed out when no results are returned. Hopefully one day Azure will allow us. In the Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes You may have seen some of my previous blog posts about monitoring your servers using Azure Log Analytics. If not you can find them at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/. In this post, I am going to focus on using Azure Log Analytics to monitor your servers disk space. In fact, I am going Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes As I am using Azure more for all of my monitoring needs I decided to look for a way to monitor multiple websites to make sure they are up. In this quick how-to, I am going to show you how to use Azure Application Insights to do just that. Prerequisites Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes As you may know, recently I have been doing a lot more with Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitor and Azure Dashboards. You can see my previous blog posts at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?s=Azure+Log+analytics. One thing I have wanted to do is to see all active Azure Monitor alerts on one of my Dashboards. Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been using the new, but still in preview Windows Terminal for a while now and absolutely love it. With every release, it just gets better. With the latest release, we now have the ability to use the Azure Cloud Shell right from within the application. Which is just Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes On my way home on August 1st my phone vibrated to indicate I had received an email, but this email was like none I had received before. This one was congratulating me on becoming a Microsoft MVP in Azure. What an email to get. At the time of writing this Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes You may have seen some of my previous blog posts regarding monitoring Azure VM’s using Azure Log Analytics. If not you can see them at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/tag/azure-log-analytics/ One question that keeps coming up is “How long does it take for the information to be visible in Log Analytics” and its a Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this blog post, I am going to show you how to use Azure Log Analytics to see if a Process is or has been running on a VM. For this, we are going to use Performance Counters. This can come in handy to see if an application has been Read more…