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Sneak peek into the new Fluent Bit Azure Data Explorer output plugin version
In my last blog post, I wrote about the different options for using Azure Data Explorer as a logging backend for Fluent Bit. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/using-azure-data-explorer-as-logging-backend-for-fluent-bit/ Especially, about my issues getting the Azure Data Explorer output plugin working and why this led to the decision to use the Kafka output plugin in combination with Azure Event…
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Using Azure Data Explorer as logging backend for Fluent Bit
Azure Data Explorer can be used as a logging backend for Fluent Bit in three different ways. In today’s blog post, we focus on one of them that in my opinion is the best one out of those three. This is the way Let us start first with a brief overview of the three different…
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Ingesting Azure Diagnostic Logs into Azure Data Explorer
In today’s blog post, we look at the Azure Diagnostic Logs and how to ingest them into Azure Data Explorer. Besides the Diagnostic Logs, we cover Activity Logs and Diagnostic Metrics as well. All three log and monitor data can be easily exported to an Azure Storage Account, an Event Hub, or a Log Analytics…
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Microsoft drops data transfer charges between Availability Zones
An important announcement during this year’s Microsoft Build has not gotten much traction and might have been missed in the vast amount of updates and announcements. Microsoft did an update to its pricing structure for inter-zone traffic. “We are announcing that Azure will not charge for the data transfer across availability zones regardless of using…
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Cost optimize your Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server deployments
As I am currently preparing my session for Experts Live Germany about Azure Cost Optimization, I thought it might be good to share parts of the session as blog articles with the community. So, expect more to come in the next weeks and months. Today we focus on cost-optimizing Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server deployments. Therefore, we look at the…
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Using Istio with Kubernetes native sidecars on Azure Kubernetes Service
In my previous blog post, I showed you how to check for specific feature gates on an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/show-enabled-feature-gates-on-an-azure-kubernetes-service-cluster/ Especially for the SidecarContainers feature gate, which is enabled on Azure Kubernetes Service running Kubernetes version 1.29 or higher. The SidecarContainers feature gate brings support for running sidecar containers as init containers. For instance, a service…