Reading Time: 4 minutes You may have seen a previous post of mine about VMSS scaling based on RabbitMQ queue size using logic apps. If not you can read about it at https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2019/09/scale-an-azure-vmss-based-on-rabbitmq-queue-size-using-an-azure-logic-app/. Well I have been thinking wouldn’t it be good to get the queue size, amount of messages and the VMSS node 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 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 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…
Reading Time: 4 minutes At 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…