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Introduction Sometimes you may encounter situations where you need to prevent an alert rule in Azure Monitor from triggering. There could be various reasons for this, such as limiting alerts to specific time windows or completely suppressing alerts for certain purposes. You can achieve this by using Alert processing rules
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Introduction In this blog post, we'll discuss how to monitor disk space on virtual machines in Azure using data collection rules and writing KQL (Kusto Query Language) queries to create alerts that trigger when disk space is running low. By default Azure offers you some common alert rules
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What is a linter? A linter is a tool for checking your code for potential errors, inconsistencies, and other issues that could cause problems. Linting can be performed by using specialized tools known as "linters" that analyze your code and flag any potential issues. For example with Terraform
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Introduction Azure Monitor is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing the performance and health of your Azure resources. However, with a large number of resources and complex alert rules, it can be challenging to keep track of all the fired alerts. You may not want to give out more
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Introduction Cloud storage is something more and more companies rely on and the need to optimize costs and ensure proper handling of data is critical for success. One way to achieve this is through lifecycle management in storage accounts, which lets us automate the process of moving and deleting data
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Introduction As more and more organizations move their applications and data to the cloud, managing identities and access becomes increasingly important. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management solution that allows you to manage user identities and access to applications and resources. Azure SQL
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Conditional Access Today the security perimeter of a company extends beyond an organisations network. With Bring your own device (BYOD), people working remote & accessing folders and documents with sensitive information from anywhere we have moved to a user & device-centric security perimeter. Conditional access is at its core
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What is Update management center? Update management center is a new feature which is still only in preview in Azure that can come to replace our update management handling in Azure. I have seen solutions that use Azure Automation, logic apps or even Azure Functions for automatic updates that run
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Functions in Azure Bicep There are many functions you can use in Azure Bicep to make your code more dynamic and one I use almost always for tagging is utcNow() to get the days date. Kind of like in Powershell where you can use: $currentDate = Get-Date -Format d Bicep
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Introduction Some time ago I was tasked with moving a few virtual machines, one SQL & one application server to a different Virtual Network (VNET). At first I thought this would be a pretty simple task, and it kind of is - but not as straight forward as it perhaps should
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Introduction In Azure Automation you can publish runbooks that contains code that you run either manually or on a schedule. You can do a lot of things with this and one thing you can do is deploy & schedule Powershell code. Me being a fan of Powershell, using it daily
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Setup There is more than one way to manage when your virtual machines in Azure should boot up and when they should shutdown. Today we will revisit some code I wrote some time ago that builds on components from another module I created. We will use Azure Automation and Powershell