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Creating custom Azure alerts from Log Analytics: parsing the alert in Azure Automation

By Cameron Fuller | August 31, 2022

This blog post shows how to create a runbook that will take an existing Kusto generated alert and reformat it into a human readable format. This is done through leveraging Azure Monitor, alert rules, action groups, Azure Automation and PowerShell called through a webhook.

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Creating custom Azure alerts from Log Analytics: the Kusto query

By Cameron Fuller | July 15, 2022

If you need custom formatted alerts, this is the best method we have found to date. In the next blog post we will showcase the updated Azure Automation runbook designed to receive and process the alert.

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Disassembling the Azure alert format for metric and log-based alerts

By Cameron Fuller | July 13, 2022

This blog post provides the internals of what is included in alerts for metrics and logs and highlights the differences between them. Additionally, this brought up two significant challenges I have seen working with them (readability and customization).

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Breaking out relevant content from AzureDiagnostics stored in the ResultDescription column

By Cameron Fuller | July 11, 2022

If you need to go through a field that contains multiple values, try out the parse-where functionality!

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Overcoming “the expression must be a constant” limit in Kusto

By Cameron Fuller | July 8, 2022

Are you running into “Error: The expression must be a constant” in Kusto? Try wrapping what you were trying to run in a function and then calling that function.

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Looking back over a lot of great years

By Cameron Fuller | July 5, 2022

The end of my time as a Microsoft MVP.

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Using the new dynamic threshold functionality for CPU alerts using metrics

By Cameron Fuller | March 30, 2022

Dynamic thresholds in Azure’s monitor appear to be an excellent way to identify changes in behavior for various metrics.

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Using the KQL query results to find the exact registry setting to remediate security configurations

By Cameron Fuller | January 5, 2022

In this blog post, we will focus on one specific set of security items and a process for resolving them more effectively.

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15 minutes a day to the secure score of your dreams!

By Cameron Fuller | January 3, 2022

Based on my experiences, the best approach to improving a secure score is to work on it for 15 minutes every workday. I hope to update this blog post with a 100 score – eventually.

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Using Tachyon V8 to enhance employee experience and productivity

By Cameron Fuller | December 1, 2021

The new functionality coming to Tachyon V8 looks to be providing some logical next steps forward to improving the employee experience. Check out the information on Tachyon V8 to see what else you find is exciting from this new release!

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