#MondayObs

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

Recommendation digest for Azure Advisor - Azure Advisor Get periodic summary for your active recommendations

[observation] The easiest way to start using Azure Advisor is to setup a Recommendation digest, sending you opportunities weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly:
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
#ObservAbility #MondayObs #AzureAdvisor

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

[observation] The image below provides a list with different SQL Server process side sources and their availability in different Azure SQL offers (SQL VM, SQL MI & SQL DB)
#ObservAbility #MondayObs #AzureSQL #SQLVM #SQLMI #SQLDB

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

What is Azure Service Health? - Azure Service Health Personalized information about how your Azure apps are affected by current and future Azure service problems and maintenance.

[observation] Priority of the notifications in Azure:
Critical: Service Health (especially Resource Health)
Important to Informational: Azure Advisor (think security/resilience/performance).
Tip: always monitor the Activity Log for notifications.
#ObservAbility #MondayObs

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

Benefits and features of Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Learn how Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL helps you discover, track, and mitigate vulnerabilities, and alerts you to potential threats.

[observation] Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL helps you discover and mitigate potential database vulnerabilities and alerts you to anomalous activities that might indicate a threat to your databases:
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
#ObservAbility #MondayObs #AzureSQL

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

Azure activity log and activity log insights - Azure Monitor Learn how to monitor changes to resources and resource groups in an Azure subscription with Azure Monitor activity log insights.

[observation] Activity Log is a single place where so many notification land - even for those affecting Azure SQL PaaS service that come from Azure Service Health, Azure Advisor or Azure Entra ID:

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

#ObservAbility #MondayObs #AzureSQL

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

Azure Monitor overview - Azure Monitor Overview of Microsoft services and functionalities that contribute to a complete monitoring strategy for your Azure services and applications.

[observation] Azure Monitor (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...) & Database Watcher [in preview] (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...) together provide a wide view over Azure SQL PaaS offers.
#ObservAbility #MondayObs #AzureSQL #AzureMonitor #DbWatcher

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

What is Microsoft Entra monitoring and health? - Microsoft Entra ID Learn about the features and capabilities of the logs and reports in Microsoft Entra monitoring and health.

[observation] Microsoft Entra monitoring & health provides insights on:
•Audit Logs
•Sign-in Logs
•Provisioning Logs
•Identity Protection
•Application activities
•Entra Workbooks
•Entra Recommendations
•Entra Health
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/...
#ObservAbility #MondayObs

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

Introduction to Azure Advisor - Azure Advisor Learn how to use Azure Advisor to optimize your Azure deployments and get answers to frequently asked questions.

[observation]
Bonus: It allows you to setup alerts on each of the impacted categories.
Plus, 3 of the current Preview Workbooks allow you to:
- Track the reliability of your applications
- Track service retirements
- Identify cost optimization opportunities
#ObservAbility #MondayObs

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

Introduction to Azure Advisor - Azure Advisor Learn how to use Azure Advisor to optimize your Azure deployments and get answers to frequently asked questions.

[observation] The single most unpopular (for unknown to me reasons) for Azure SQL observability resource is Azure Advisor - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
Providing recommendations on Reliability, Security, Performance, Cost & Operation Excellence ... for free!
#ObservAbility #MondayObs

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

Azure Monitor overview - Azure Monitor Overview of Microsoft services and functionalities that contribute to a complete monitoring strategy for your Azure services and applications.

Azure SQL PaaS solutions have 2 major parts that needs to be monitored - Azure Platform side & VM + SQL Server process side.
For the start, use Azure Monitor for the Azure Platform side & Database Watcher or any other great partner monitoring solutions.
#AzureSQL #ObserveAbility #MondayObs

Niko Neugebauer

@nikoneugebauer.bsky.social

1 year ago

[observation] One of the most important Azure observability links is: aka.ms/azureservice...
- list of service issues,
- planned maintenances,
- health & security advisories,
- resource health for your individual resources,
- history
- alerts
#ObservAbility #MondayObs