Azure Monitor Log Alert V2

Log Alerts have been available in Log Analytics for quite some time. Initially they were available via legacy Log Alert API that was specific for Log Analytics. In order to make Log Alert more native to Azure a new Log Alert API was available. With a few minor features like (custom webhook payload) that API was direct translate from the legacy one offering the same features. Now Azure Monitor team is introducing a new Log Alert that is named Log Alert V2. That new alert is using the same API but with new version. So if you use the API version 2018-04-16 to create Log Alert you are creating v1 and if you use version 2021-08-01 you are creating v2. Log Alert v2 will be generally available probably very soon as I have received e-mail notification containing the following information:

  • any API version like 2021-02-01-preview will be deprecated and replaced by version 2021-08-01
  • billing for Log Alert v2 will start from 30th of November.

This for me signals that before 30th of November or several weeks after the service will be generally available. I am not aware of specific information just the official e-mail notification leads me to these conclusions. The Log Alert v2 has been in preview for a couple of months which I have been testing and providing feedback.

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Find The Resources Which Use Particular User Assigned Managed Identity

I have been busy lately (answering on Q&A, Bicep testing, working, etc.) which prevented me from writing new blog posts but I hope to do more blogging again. This blog post will be a quick tip.

If you have wondered in which resources a particular user assigned managed identity was used you can see that information quickly by using Azure Resource Graph. The query is very simple:

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Examples from my Azure Bootcamp 2021 session

At Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2021 I have presented "Azure Deployments – Past, Present and Future". In the demos I had two examples:

  • Advanced ARM template templates for deploying Azure SQL Database
  • The above example converted to the new Bicep language

You can find both examples uploaded here. The Bicep example is also published in the Bicep repository examples.

Deleting Custom Table from Azure Log Analytics

If you are familiar with Log Analytics you will know that you can delete custom field/column directly from the UI as you can see below:

Custom Field Delete

For example I can delete custom field _ResourceId_s for MyLog0001_CL table. That option has been there for quite some time. A couple of years ago an API was made available so you can delete specific data from a table. This was also know as the purge API. The purge API is basically deleting data based on KQL query. With these APIs you could delete specific fields and data but the table that was created by custom log will still be in the Log Analytics.

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Speaking at Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2021

This is just a quick blog post to notify you about me speaking at Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2021. If you are interested in Azure deployments or some of the other sessions you can check out the schedule and register.