Azure Monitor – Thomas Thornton – Microsoft Azure MVP

Azure Virtual Machine Change Tracking

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon 7th May 202029th Jul 2020in Azure, Azure Monitor, Diagnostics, Microsoft Azure, troubleshooting1 Comment

Lets have a look at the Azure Virtual Change Tracking extension/solution that allows you to view guest-related OS changes within your Virtual Machine from Azure. This data can be used to alert-on if required various changes within your Virtual Machine…

cloud-init does not appear to be running error after installing WALinuxAgent fix

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon 16th Apr 202027th Oct 2020in Azure, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Azure, tips, troubleshooting8 Comments

After a recent migration of a Linux VM (Ubuntu 16.04) from a data centre to Azure using Azure Migrate, it didn't include the installation of WALinuxAgent Why is this needed? This agent is how the Virtual Machine communicates with Azure,…

Azure Virtual Machine Boot Diagnostics

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon 9th Mar 202027th Oct 2020in Azure Monitor, Diagnostics, Microsoft Azure, tips, troubleshootingLeave a comment

This little feature has assisted me many times! Azure Virtual Machine boot diagnostics gives you a log view and screenshot of your Virtual Machine (VM) from the hypervisor level. VM not accessible? This feature may just help you! Checking this…

Monitor connection to a Virtual Machine using Connection Monitor

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon 3rd Mar 202029th Jul 2020in Azure, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Azure, NetworkingLeave a comment

Network Watcher Connection Monitor is a pretty cool service in Azure, ever need to monitor a Virtual machine but third-party extensions cannot be configured? Connection Monitor allows you to monitor Virtual Machines ports to ensure they're still listening and reachable.…

Creating Azure Activity Log Alerts with PowerShell

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon 10th Oct 201927th Oct 2020in automation, Azure, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Azure2 Comments

Want to create alerts from the Azure Activity Log? I will be showing how to do this with the PowerShell cmdlet Set-AzActivityLogAlert using conditions taken from a json output of the Activity Log. For the example I will be looking…

Creating automated reports using Logic Apps for Log Analytics queries

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon 30th Aug 2019in analytics, automation, Azure, Azure Monitor, Diagnostics, Logic Apps, Microsoft Azure10 Comments

From time to time, you may want an automated report to be emailed which displays a specific Log Analytics query, in this blog I will detail how this can be done via using a Logic App. What are Logic Apps?…

Azure Monitor – Taking the Logging and alerting deployment from ARM To PowerShell

Posted by Thomas Thorntonon 22nd Aug 2019in Azure, Azure Monitor, Diagnostics, Logging, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, troubleshooting2 Comments

Azure Monitor, an all in one comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing and acting on your cloud and/or on-premises environment. Along with this, we use both Log Analytics & Application Insights for collecting and analyzing telemetry data that allows us to…