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Azure Monitor Agent & AMPLS - The Gotchas Nobody Warns You About

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Learn how to troubleshoot Azure Monitor Agent and AMPLS data ingestion failures. Covers identity, DCE associations, DNS conflicts, VMSS, and DCR gotchas.

Always Check The Default Parameters When Assigning An Azure Policy

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 06:00:12 +0000

In this post I explain why it is important to always check the default parameters when assigning an Azure Policy to prevent unexpected issues from occuring.

Creating A Modern Azure Diagnostics Policy That Generative AI Couldn't - Yet!

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0100

I have recently been working with an organisation who wanted to improve their security posture in Azure by using Azure Policy to configure Diagnostic Settings for their Azure resources at scale. They wanted to make use of Category Groups to dynamically collect all available logs and metrics and simplify the policy logic so it could be reused across multiple resources. I thought ‘that sounds simple enough as there will be a built in policy that does all that’, but there wasn’t, so I set to work.

Modifying An Existing Azure Policy

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0100

There may well come a time when there isn’t a Built In Azure Policy that meets your needs, and you need to either modify an existing policy, or create new a policy from scratch. Creating custom policies should always be a last resort, as the BuiltIn policies Azure provides are kept up to date and version controlled by Microsoft. As soon as you create a custom policy, you are responsible for maintaining it when capability is added or deprecated.