Billy York shares deep insights on Azure monitoring, Log Analytics, and Resource Graph. His blog covers advanced Azure Workbooks, alerting, and performance metrics for IT professionals and cloud engineers.
13 articles from this blog
Explains two methods to create a used memory percentage metric for Windows Servers in Azure Monitor Log Analytics for effective alerting.
A guide to creating an Azure Service Health dashboard using Azure Resource Graph Explorer, including KQL queries and a shared workbook.
A technical guide on extracting and manipulating nested JSON and XML fields in Kusto Query Language (KQL) 2.0, covering operators like mv-expand and bag_unpack.
A technical guide on creating Azure Monitor alerts using Azure Resource Graph queries, covering managed identity setup and practical examples.
Explains how to use datasets as parameters in Azure Workbooks to combine data from Log Analytics, Resource Graph, and APIs for advanced analytics.
Azure Resource Graph can now be queried directly from Log Analytics, enabling new KQL capabilities and integration for alerts.
Azure Resource Graph now includes Policy Exemptions data, enabling cloud-scale queries and analysis with KQL examples provided.
Azure Monitor Log Alerts now support Managed Identity for secure query execution, enabling integration with Azure Data Explorer.
A guide to migrating from Classic Application Insights to the new Workspace-based model, covering the process, data merging, and alert reconfiguration.
Guide to identifying full or nearly full FSLogix user profiles in Azure Virtual Desktop/Citrix environments using Event Logs and Log Analytics queries.
A guide on copying specific elements like queries, metrics, or groups between Azure Workbooks using the Advanced Editor and JSON.
A guide to monitoring Azure Key Vault certificate and secret expiration using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, without needing Event Grid.
Explores challenges and solutions for setting up Azure alerts at scale, focusing on Log Analytics and host platform metrics for IaaS VMs.
