ABCD Azure

Explanation of Alerts from the Azure Monitor(ARM and REST API)

There have been many changes to Alerting on the Azure platform recently. I will try to explain the state as of today. We have: Metrics Alerts - Metric alerts in Azure Monitor provide

Log Analytics

Backup Reports from Recovery Services vaults with Log Analytics and Azure Monitor

There is an easy way to send all logs from Recovery Services to our Log Analytics workspace. Go to Recovery Services vaults and under Monitoring and Reports find Backup Reports. When you click,

Automation

Monitoring and Alerting Runbooks with Log Analytics and Azure Monitor

Automation Account can send runbook job status and job streams to Log Analytics workspace, and we can use it to create alerts. First, we need to connect Automation Account to Log Analytics: $automationAccountId

Create Azure Automation with Run As account using PowerShell

This script will create Azure Automation account with Run As account with a self-signed certificate. The certificate will be generated by Key Vault. param( #VSTS data [string]$AutomationAccountName, [string]$ResourceGroupOMS, [string]$SubscriptionId, [string]

PowerShell

How to add Dependency Agent to VM in Azure using PowerShell and ARM Template

Some solutions in OMS like Network Performance Monitor or Service Map require Dependency Agent installed on Virtual Machine. Let's try to add this in the most efficient way. ARM Template { "$schema"

OMS

How to deploy Performance Counters in OMS with PowerShell

To have working alerts we need collect data for them. We can define performance counters with simple fuction. #Instance ################################## $InstanceNameAll = "*" $InstanceNameTotal = '_Total' #Objects ################################## $ObjectCache = "Cache" $ObjectLogicalDisk = "LogicalDisk&

Managed Disk

Creating and Restoring Azure Virtual Machine Snapshots for Managed Disks

At the moment official way to restore Virtual Machine from a snapshot is to recreate VM. Why not just replace OS disk? Let's start from the beginning. Shutdown Virutal Machine $resourceGroupName = "TestGroup&

OMS

How to deploy OMS Alerts with ARM Template

OMS is a great tool, but I can't imagine to set it manually. Most boring part is Alerting, so I prepared ARM Template for that. Before we start coding we need to understand

OMS

How to bulk install OMS solutions with PowerShell

What is Operations Management Suite (OMS)? The (OMS), previously known as Azure Operational Insights, is a software as a service platform that allows an administrator to manage on-premises and cloud IT assets from

Azure Rest API

How to authenticate in Azure REST API with Postman

There is always a moment when PowerShell, Azure CLI or ARM Template are not enough. Azure API come handy at that point. This article will show you how to authenticate to the API