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The three pillars of observability
By looking at our systems through the lens of these three pillars, we can start to identify specific areas where we can improve our observability and get a clearer view of what’s happening in our environment. Let’s go into more detail: In addition to supporting the three pillars of observability – metrics, logs, and traces – Azure…
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Azure Resource Graph Explorer
Use the Resource Graph Explorer to query VMs by subnet
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Problem You need to route outgoing subnet traffic to Azure and/or on-premises networks and/or internet resources. Solution Create an Azure route table, add one or more custom routes to it, and associate the new route table with your subnets Steps 4. Create a new route table resource using the following command. Replace <route-table-name> with your desired name: 5.…
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LB and Security
The Standard SKU supports availability zones with zone-redundant and zonal frontends for inbound and outbound traffic and health probes, including TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS, while the Basic SKU only supports TCP and HTTP. Another benefit of using the Standard SKU is the ability to use HA ports. Azure services that are compatible with availability zones fall into three…
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Azure Virtual WAN
To connect to an Azure Virtual WAN, you first need to determine how you’re connecting to it—through on-premises, a VPN client, or other Azure VNets. Here’s a summary of the most common ways to connect: 🔌 1. Connect an Azure VNet to Virtual WAN Use: To connect your Azure Virtual Networks to the hub in…
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Database sharding
Database sharding is a technique used to horizontally scale a database by splitting (or partitioning) large datasets into smaller, faster, and more manageable parts called shards. Each shard is an independent database that holds a subset of the overall data. Together, all the shards make up the complete dataset. How It Works: For example: User…
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Azure Monitoring
Azure Monitor is a central tool and resource that provides complete management features that allow you to monitor an Azure subscription. It provides management features for activity logs, diagnostic logs, metrics, Application Insights, and Log Analytics. It should be treated as a dashboard and management resource for all other monitoring capabilities. Azure Log Analytics Azure Log Analytics…
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Azure Scalability
VMSSes are Azure compute resources that you can use to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. This enables these VMs to be load balanced using an Azure load balancer or an application gateway. The VMs could be either Windows or Linux VMs. They can run automated scripts using a PowerShell extension and they can be…