Category: General
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Designing the Azure Data Explorer table structure for Azure Diagnostic Logs or Defender for Cloud data ingestion
In my recent blog posts about Azure Data Explorer, I wrote about Activity Logs and Diagnostic Logs ingestion. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/ingesting-azure-diagnostic-logs-into-azure-data-explorer/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/export-azure-kubernetes-service-control-plane-logs-to-azure-data-explorer/ Today, I would like to discuss how to design the Azure Data Explorer table for the Diagnostic Logs or Defender for Cloud log data ingestion. Depending on your preferences, you can choose between…
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Export Azure Kubernetes Service control plane logs to Azure Data Explorer
In today’s blog post, we look at the Azure Kubernetes Service control plane logs and how to ingest them into Azure Data Explorer. Especially, the Kubernetes Audit (kube-audit) log. Azure Data Explorer – Ingestion Method Looking at the export options for the Azure Kubernetes Service control plane logs we can choose between an Azure Storage…
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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…