Archive of posts with category 'Log Analytics'

Microsoft Azure and hibernated Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop Hibernation

Microsoft introduced a new feature for Virtual Machines: Hibernation (link to MS post). That is awesome and allows totally new scenarios, not even for Azure Virtual Desktop. But used with...

Debugging Azure Virtual Desktop errors/issues/network latency and bandwidth with an interactive Workbook

Correctly configured, Azure Virtual Desktop sends diagnostic data to a log analytics workspace (Azure Monitor). There are several logs containing data about the events in the backend:

Deploying and updating standard applications with Microsoft Package Manager / Winget automatically

Around 2.5 years ago, I introduced a feature in WVDAdmin to install applications from a list of thousands of VM and hosts. That was based on the Microsoft Package Manager...

Get alerted if Azure Virtual Desktop fails - AVD Monitoring and alerting with Loganalytics / Azure Monitor

Monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop is important to get insights into the performance and resource usage and alert if something generally goes wrong. Especially, getting alerted if something goes wrong is...

PolarConf 2019 - Building own solutions whit Azure Monitor

In October I visited Finland the very first time to speak at PolarConf and I have to say: It was amazing. A great single track event over two days. It...

Workshop Azure Monitor - Lessons

To get practice in using Azure Monitor, I have prepared some examples. These examples can be recreated with a little PowerShell. I have prepared more complex program parts. These can...

Deploying a custom OMS Log Analytics Workspace via GitHub – Avoid problems with ARM templates

Azure is “my” cloud with a lot of platform services allowing users, programmers, and DevOps building powerful and scalable solutions. One of my favorite ones is Azure OMS Log Analytics...

Monitoring End-User Computing Environments with Azure OMS LogAnalytics with Deploy to Azure

Several months ago, I built a solution focused on monitoring the user experiences on remote desktop environments based on Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and Microsoft RDS. Particularly RDS/RDP was imported because...