Send GitHub Copilot CLI telemetry to Azure Application Insights
Send GitHub Copilot CLI telemetry to Azure Application Insights using an authenticated OpenTelemetry Collector on Azure Container Apps, then query it with KQL.
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From Azure Policy to APIM: Implementing Azure AI Guardrails
Azure Policy and API Management solve different parts of AI governance in Azure. This post goes into the actual policies and APIM XML behind that two-layer model, covering network controls, approved models, token quotas, content safety and observability.
Drawio Agent Skill
The Draw.io MCP Diagramming Agent Skill provides a reusable working method for creating clear, editable diagrams with Draw.io MCP. It supports cloud architectures, network topologies, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, event-driven systems, C4, UML and more, while applying consistent guidance for layout, containment, connector routing, labels and validation.
Why agent skills need good descriptions
Agent skills are only useful if the agent knows when to use them. A clear description acts as selection metadata, helping the agent load the right guidance, avoid noisy context, and produce more consistent results across repeated engineering tasks.
HolmesGPT + Azure AI Foundry: A Quick Kubernetes Troubleshooting Demo
A quick HolmesGPT demo using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI and a local kind cluster. Deploy a deliberately broken Kubernetes pod, ask HolmesGPT to investigate it, and see how it identifies the root cause from the pod spec, scheduler events and cluster state.
Terraform Module Design Is the Hard Part – So I Built an Agent Skill for It
Building Terraform modules is rarely the hard part. The harder part is deciding whether a module should exist at all, where the boundary should sit, how much of the provider surface to expose, and which platform defaults should be opinionated rather than endlessly configurable. In this post, I walk through why I built a terraform-module-creator GitHub Copilot skill to help with that design work up front, using live Azure MCP and HashiCorp MCP guidance to shape better module boundaries, interfaces, documentation, validation, and long-term supportability.
Creating Diagrams with an Excalidraw Agent Skill and Excalidraw MCP
Learn how an Excalidraw Agent Skill powered by Excalidraw MCP in GitHub Copilot can generate Cloud, Terraform, and workflow diagrams from natural language prompts.
Azure Pricing Skill for GitHub Copilot Using Azure MCP
How I built the azure-pricing skill for GitHub Copilot, using Azure MCP and the Azure Retail Prices API to bring live Azure pricing into architecture and engineering workflows.
Azure Diagram Agent Skill with Draw.io MCP
Learn how to generate Azure architecture diagrams automatically using Draw.io MCP and GitHub Copilot Agent Skills. Build consistent, readable diagrams directly from structured inputs and integrate them into engineering workflows.
API Management – Disable Trusted Connectivity by March 2026
If you are using Azure API Management service, you may get notified or see an Azure advisor recommendation regarding – Disable trusted service connectivity in API Management. While reviewing Azure Advisor recommendations across multiple subscriptions, I noticed something interesting: only a subset of our API Management (APIM) services appeared in the advisor alerts. This prompted … Read more