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…
Reading Time: 4 minutes You may have seen some of my other posts about Server monitoring using Azure Log Analytics and pinning the output to a dashboard. If not you can see them here https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-available-memory-using-azure-log-analytics/ and here https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/ . If you are like me, you may want this monitoring dashboard on a big screen. Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Azure Bastion has been out in preview for a few weeks now. So I thought now that the dust has settled I will share my thoughts about it. I was going to do a blog post on how to set it up, but the Microsoft docs and a lot of Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes At one of my meetups, I talked about Azure Security and how you can monitor your Active Directory’s security events cheaply using Azure Security Centre and Azure Log Analytics. There are a few prerequisites to this which I have pointed out below. I have not gone into the details about Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes You may have come across a previous post of mine about monitoring servers CPU usage. If not, you can find it at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/. The post you are reading now goes hand in hand with the previous post to help you monitor your servers. In this post, I will go through Read more…