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Step-by-Step Guide to Automate Log Analytics Reports with Azure Logic Apps to Blob Storage

1st August 20242nd July 2024 by Thomas Thornton
Logic App workflow showing the flow to automate Log Analytics reports to Blob Storage

Azure Logic Apps, coupled with Log Analytics, offers a simple, but powerful solution for automating the creation and storage of reports from Log Analytics queries and sending them to blob storage. Why automate Log Analytics query reports? Many reasons as to why you may want to automate reports from log analytics queries, storing the data … Read more

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Azure Data Transfer Solution Suggestions for Storage Accounts

29th July 20207th January 2020 by Thomas Thornton

Want to transfer data to Azure Storage Accounts and unsure what method to use? Lets have a look at Azure Data Transfer suggestions to assist you in choosing the solution recommended for you A pretty cool feature within Storage Accounts, a few quick drop-downs to select and Azure offer you the most viable options to … Read more

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Azure Storage Lifecycle Management

27th October 202012th December 2019 by Thomas Thornton

Using Azure Blob storage & storing data? Throughout the life time of data, its requirement for access can vary and sometimes may rarely be required again after a few days or the data expires after a month once its been created. Depending on the amount of data you consume with Azure Blob storage, this can … Read more

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Categories automation, Azure, Microsoft Azure Tags Microsoft, storage account, Storage lifecycle 3 Comments

Azure Storage Account Static Website

27th October 202016th September 2019 by Thomas Thornton

Have a requirement for a static website in either HTML, CSS, JavaScript? Have a look at creating a static Website using an Azure Storage Account, simple to create and very cost effective! In this blog, I will show to do this via both Portal and PowerShell A v2 Storage Account is required. During initial setup … Read more

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Azure Storage Account:- Manual Failover

18th March 20198th February 2019 by Thomas Thornton

Rather happy with this preview feature announcement – currently in preview Geo-redundant storage (GRS) or Read Access-GRS accounts now have the option to manually fail over rather than wait on Azure to initiate the fail-over into the secondary region. This is great news, not all “Disaster Recovery” scenarios now require Azure to initiate the fail-over, … Read more

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