Troubleshooting Archives - Pixel Robots. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/category/troubleshooting/ A blog about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and more... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:48:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-logohead-32x32.png Troubleshooting Archives - Pixel Robots. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/category/troubleshooting/ 32 32 Container Network Insight Agent for AKS is Now in Public Preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/container-network-insight-agent-for-aks-is-now-in-public-preview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=container-network-insight-agent-for-aks-is-now-in-public-preview https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/container-network-insight-agent-for-aks-is-now-in-public-preview/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:48:10 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=41536 Reading Time: 10 minutesI spotted this one via the AKS Docs Tracker I built and run here on pixelrobots.co.uk. It picked up new docs appearing under the AKS section and this one caught my eye immediately. Microsoft has shipped a public preview of something called Container Network Insight Agent, and it is genuinely Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/04/container-network-insight-agent-for-aks-is-now-in-public-preview/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/thumbnail-360-×-240-px.png Troubleshooting Kubernetes with kubectl: Cheat Sheet https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2021/02/troubleshooting-kubernetes-with-kubectl-cheat-sheet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=troubleshooting-kubernetes-with-kubectl-cheat-sheet https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2021/02/troubleshooting-kubernetes-with-kubectl-cheat-sheet/#respond Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:51:04 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=37919 Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have been working on a nice simple cheat sheet to help troubleshoot issues with your Kubernetes objects. It will hopefully help you know what commands to use and when. You can find an image of it below and a link to a pdf download. Let me know what you Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2021/02/troubleshooting-kubernetes-with-kubectl-cheat-sheet/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Untitled-design-2.png Pin items to an Azure dashboard when no results are returned https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/09/pin-items-to-an-azure-dashboard-when-no-results-are-returned/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pin-items-to-an-azure-dashboard-when-no-results-are-returned https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/09/pin-items-to-an-azure-dashboard-when-no-results-are-returned/#comments Thu, 05 Sep 2019 20:26:48 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=35872 Reading Time: 2 minutesHave 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/09/pin-items-to-an-azure-dashboard-when-no-results-are-returned/feed/ 1 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/noresults.png Monitor your servers available Memory using Azure Log Analytics https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-available-memory-using-azure-log-analytics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monitor-your-servers-available-memory-using-azure-log-analytics https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-available-memory-using-azure-log-analytics/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:37:09 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=34672 Reading Time: 3 minutesYou 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

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-available-memory-using-azure-log-analytics/feed/ 3 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/freemb.png Monitor your servers CPU usage using Azure Log Analytics https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:24:31 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=34473 Reading Time: 4 minutesAt one of my Azure user groups, someone asked me about monitoring servers using Azure. So I thought perhaps more people would like to know this too, hence this blog post. This post will focus on monitoring CPU usage. I will go through the query I use and will show Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/06/monitor-your-servers-cpu-usage-using-azure-log-analytics/feed/ 4 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cpumonitor.png An Easy way to Monitor Remaining Azure B-Series VM Credits https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/an-easy-way-to-monitor-remaining-azure-b-series-vm-credits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-easy-way-to-monitor-remaining-azure-b-series-vm-credits https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/an-easy-way-to-monitor-remaining-azure-b-series-vm-credits/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:41:18 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=31292 Reading Time: 4 minutesAt work, I am using a few B-Series VMs in Azure. For what we use them for, they are mostly ok until recently. One of my VMs started to get sluggish and when checking, I could not see much wrong with it. The VM in question was running with the Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/an-easy-way-to-monitor-remaining-azure-b-series-vm-credits/feed/ 1 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/b-series.png Using the Azure Portal to run Scripts Inside an Azure VM https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/using-the-azure-portal-to-run-scripts-inside-an-azure-vm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-the-azure-portal-to-run-scripts-inside-an-azure-vm https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/using-the-azure-portal-to-run-scripts-inside-an-azure-vm/#respond Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:29:49 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=31222 Reading Time: 3 minutesThe other day I was having a look around the Azure VM blade and came across an option called Run Command. I have never seen this option before so of course, I clicked it, and I am glad I did. From inside this section you are able to run scripts Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/09/using-the-azure-portal-to-run-scripts-inside-an-azure-vm/feed/ 0 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Azure_Run_Command.png How to change the notification email for Azure AD Connect https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/04/how-to-change-the-notification-email-for-azure-ad-connect/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-change-the-notification-email-for-azure-ad-connect https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/04/how-to-change-the-notification-email-for-azure-ad-connect/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:00:49 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=30424 Reading Time: 3 minutesI have recently moved to a new employer who is using Azure AD Connect. Unfortunately, the email address who was getting any failure notices was no longer in use, so I decided to set the notifications to go to a new distribution group. In this article, I will show you Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2018/04/how-to-change-the-notification-email-for-azure-ad-connect/feed/ 1 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/adconnect.png Quick How To Force Active Directory Replication https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2017/03/quick-how-to-force-active-directory-replication/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quick-how-to-force-active-directory-replication https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2017/03/quick-how-to-force-active-directory-replication/#respond Mon, 13 Mar 2017 05:00:02 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=4946 Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently at work, we have had some issues on a customer site with GPO’s. As we were on a tight schedule I wanted to force replication rather than wait for the normal replication cycle to happen. It is really easy to force a replication, and this article will show you Read more

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]]> https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2017/03/quick-how-to-force-active-directory-replication/feed/ 0 Active Directory installation stalls at the “Creating the NTDS settings object” stage https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2016/11/active-directory-installation-stalls-at-the-creating-the-ntds-settings-object-stage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=active-directory-installation-stalls-at-the-creating-the-ntds-settings-object-stage https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2016/11/active-directory-installation-stalls-at-the-creating-the-ntds-settings-object-stage/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:14:01 +0000 https://pixelrobots.co.uk/?p=4804 Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently at work, I was adding a new Domain Controller to an existing forest and I just could not get past “Creating the NTDS Settings” I have done this many times in the past and never had this issue. After trying a few times and a lot of waiting, I Read more

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