Azure Service Health provides you with an interactive dashboard that primarily tracks the health of your Azure Services in the regions that you have deployed to. There are three types of health events that are tracked: Health Advisories:- Changes in Azure Services that require your attention, such as quota usage being exceeded or Azure resources … Continue reading Creating Azure Service Health Alerts in PowerShell
Azure Automation Runbook – Stop/Start Azure Firewall
Azure Automation runbooks can be used for numerous scheduled tasks throughout your Azure subscription, in this blog I will show how it can be used to stop & start Azure Firewall in both a schedule and invoking using a webhook. What types of runbooks are available? TypeDescriptionGraphicalBased on Windows PowerShell that uses a graphical editorGraphical … Continue reading Azure Automation Runbook – Stop/Start Azure Firewall
Azure Bastion – First thoughts on Preview
A preview I have been waiting on, Azure Bastion - a PaaS service provided by Azure that will allow you to seamlessly and securely RDP/SSH to your virtual machines within a Virtual Network, the connections are completed in the Azure Portal over SSL. When a Bastion is configured, no additional Public IP addresses are required … Continue reading Azure Bastion – First thoughts on Preview
Logic Apps – RSS Feeds to Twitter
What are Logic Apps? A little resource with a big outcome, Logic Apps assist you with automated workflow; scheduling, automating, coposing a task or even rewiting a task. Sounds good? Lets continue! Examples of Logic Apps include:- Auto tier Azure Blobs based on last modified timeReceive emails about new Tweets with certain key wordsPost a … Continue reading Logic Apps – RSS Feeds to Twitter
Azure Functions:- Creating a PowerShell Function v2 using Azure CLI
Previously I had blogged about creating a PowerShell functions using v1 of Azure Functions but in recent updates; PowerShell Core 6 (Preview) is now supported in v2. Want to run small snippets of code in the cloud? Without the need to deploy adequate infrastructure to do so? Azure Functions allow you to do so, with … Continue reading Azure Functions:- Creating a PowerShell Function v2 using Azure CLI
Creating alerts within specified hours with Log Analytics
From time to time, creating alerts using data in Log Analytics may have an additional requirement only to be alerted on specified time frames, usually within business hours or outside of core hours, examples of this may include:- RDP Login in office hoursCPU Spike outside office hours Part of the Log Analytics query will be … Continue reading Creating alerts within specified hours with Log Analytics
Availability Sets v Availability Zones in IaaS
Deploying your Production IaaS VMs within Azure you will be wanting to consider redundancy and ensuring your environment is highly available in both the Application itself along with the infrastructure it will be using within Azure. Looking at this from a high-level, you will be deploying each part of the application that you want to … Continue reading Availability Sets v Availability Zones in IaaS
