In recent years, I have built and operated distributed cloud systems. With these systems comes various challenges. A key thing I've learned is to keep a close eye on metrics and insights, to learn how our applications are behaving at scale. This post will be about how to make use of Azure Application Insights to learn about performance and execution issues in Azure Functions, and ultimately in Azure App Services. We will take a look at these things: Use cases. Some favorites from my professional experiences.Favorite KQL (Kusto Query Language) queries. Querying the telemetry and logs for insightful data.…
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In this post I'm sharing a tip about how you can remove the Azure Sentinel service, but keep your ingested data in Log Analytics so you can actually keep working with the data for reports and auditing reasons.
A powerful capability of the Azure Sentinel service is that you can ingest data from a wide variety of sources. Using Connectors, you can even ingest data from other places than Azure, and you can get a more complete picture of your security posture across services in your technological landscape. In a previous post I talked about how to ingest Office 365 logs into your Azure Sentinel dashboards. In this post, I'm talking about how we can build our own Azure Log Analytics Data Collector API application to send custom logs to your Log Analytics workspace - and since I'm…
Learn how to send logs to Azure Log Analytics using C# with this simple helper wrapper.
UPDATE AUTUMN 2018: Microsoft recently released a Preview of Azure Monitor integration with AKS. Read more about how to enable it here: https://zimmergren.net/enable-monitoring-with-azure-monitor-log-analytics-for-aks/ OBSOLETE: Please note, as the previous comment and link above suggest, the information here is now obsolete since it was written during the Preview of AKS. Please use the link above to navigate to the simplified, and updated, information about how to get this running! One of the things I've noticed many times over the last year working with different orchestrators, distributed cloud platforms and container systems is that without proper monitoring and logging,…