Tag: query

Aggregate on More Than One Column for Azure Log Search Alerts

Log Analytics alerts aka Azure Log Search Alerts allows you to create a single alert and trigger alert instances per a column. This is possible by creating metric measurement alert. Unfortunately these types of alerts also have a limitation which might be blocking in certain situation. The classical example for that limitation is to create a single alert that will separate instance for free disk space threshold for each computer and disk. The query representation of that looks like this:

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Top 10 Charts in Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights

I’ve recently stumbled on forum question asking for chart that list only the top 10 resources or computers. Such chart is of course used a lot in performance metrics where for example you want to get the top 10 computers with CPU usage and list them in time chart.

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Using Custom Log Search Alerts Based on Metric Measurement for Event Based Logs

In Azure Monitor we can create two type of alerts for Log Analytics:

Near real-time metric alerts are scoped to specific performance counter and heartbeat events but with Custom Log Search Alerts you can alert on any log in Log Analytics. With Custom Log Search Alerts the alert logic have two types:

  • Number of results
  • Metric Measurement

In a typical scenario you will use Number of results for logs and events and metric measurement for performance/metric logs. That wouldn’t be a problem if the way the alerts are fired distinguish quite a lot between those. For example in metric measurement you aggregate/summarize results and you alert based on the value from the aggregation/summarization. On top of that different alert instance is fired on each summarized record. In number of results you do not summarize/aggregate and alerts are fired based on the count of the records. For example on 10 records you will get only one alert instead of 10. If you are like me this is a problem as you want to get separate alert instance for your events just like metric measurement alerts.
In this blog post I will show you how to overcome this problem with workaround from the powerful Log Analytics query language.

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Find if You Are Using Only TLS 1.2 Protocol with Log Analytics

I’ve stumbled on a great article by Brandon Wilson named Demystifying Schannel on which he explains how we can enable verbose logging for Schannel to found out what protocols our machines are using. As I leave and breathe Log Analytics and love to crunch data I thought would be cool example if we can ingest that data into it  and show you some cool example with the new query language on transforming data.

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Programmatically Search Operations Management Suite

At Ignite Jo Chan showed us how we can now execute Search queries trough Operations Management Suite API which is basically Azure Resource Manager API. He demonstrated that with a tool called ARMClient. That tool seems nice but I wanted to get results with PowerShell as it is more familiar to me. Continue reading “Programmatically Search Operations Management Suite” →