Reading Time: < 1 minute The Azure Advent Calendar kicks off on December 1st through to December 25th this year. For people taking part (entry is now closed – apologies) we have set up a YouTube Channel to host your entries on your behalf, we will send you back the YouTube link once we have uploaded and scheduled the video. For participants, please Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been playing around with AKS a bit now and recently came across the ability to disable the Kubernetes dashboard in AKS using the preview extension. I am not too sure when the CLI extension will be out of preview, but I am sure the same command will work. Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you use the Azure portal you may have seen some new icons in Azure. If you have not got them yet, they will be coming. You could also have a look at the preview portal https://preview.portal.azure.com. It seems some icons are not quite there yet, so be on the Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes You may not know, but by default, AKS clusters are created with a service principal and that service principal has a one-year expiration time. Luckily there is an easy solution to update the credentials and this blog post is going to show you how to do it! Time to start Read more…
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…