Tag: Azure Monitor Alert Series

Azure Monitor Alert Series Part 12

I have promised that I will write the last part of this series and I am doing it later than never. After the December holidays I have been occupied with some community stuff that hopefully will see light in the next months. Due those community duties I was not able to write the last part sooner.

In this last part we will cover Azure Alerts Common schema. I will try not to cover things that are already in the official documentation but I want to mention a few important things. If you haven’t checked the documentation please do before reading the rest of the blog post.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 11

So far we have covered all the alert types that are available not only in Azure Monitor but other services like Sentinel and Cost Management as well. That does not end this series though as we haven’t other important parts of the alerting like integration. In this blog particularly we will cover Action Groups and Action Rules. These are two very important features in order to achieve complete monitoring.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 10

We are getting to one of the last blog post of these series. I still haven’t decided how much more I will publish but this one won’t be the last one. If not else there will be at least another one after this one. Today we will cover Azure Sentinel alerts. To be honest I was not sure if I will cover these alert types. I have tons of feedback for Azure Sentinel in general and specifically for their alerts. That feedback focuses more on APIs and alignment with other Azure teams. I am sure that from security functionality perspective the service is doing great. But let’s start looking at Azure Sentinel alerts and I will express my feedback trough the blog post.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 9

We continue our journey in Azure Monitor Alerts. This time we will cover alert type that is not part of Azure Monitor specifically but my opinion is that every Azure alert should integrate somehow with Azure Monitor so we have one consistent alert experience. The alert type that we will cover today somehow achieve this. This alert type is cost management alert or budget alert.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 8

We are now on part 8 of these series. This blog post will be shorter compared to the others due to the nature of the alert we will cover in it. This time we will explore Azure Monitor for VMs alerts. Before proceeding to the alert part I should mention that Azure Monitor for VMs is in public preview. Always proceed with caution when using preview features as there might be some things missing compared to services/features that are general available.

Update 16.10.2019: A few hours after I have released this blog post the following announcement was made Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) before general availability release

To understand better the Azure Monitor for VMs alerts we need to understand better how the solution works. The solution itself consists of 3 major features:

  • Gathering performance data trough performance counters from Windows and Linux VMs
  • Visualizing maps of TCP communication on the VMs (via Service Map)
  • Discovering and showing VM health data
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