log analytics
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Saturday Heat – Bonus Walkthrough!
There is too much heat this week for me. I took the opportunity to try & find some distraction for you too! In this Saturday bonus article, we will build several practical security queries progressively. We will begin by reviewing raw Microsoft Entra sign-in data, add filters, summarize the results, extract values from dynamic fields,…
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Microsoft Sentinel Baseline Deployment: From Zero to Operational SOC
Microsoft Sentinel can be enabled in minutes. A good Sentinel deployment takes planning. Most Sentinel pain does not come from missing detections or weak analytics. It comes from architectural shortcuts taken on day one: poorly scoped workspaces, uncontrolled access, unpredictable ingestion costs, and a lack of governance before the first alert ever fires. In this…
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Azure Updates – Number 94 – July 13, 2024
A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.
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Set Log Analytics Workspace Data Cap
Let’s take a look at setting data ingestion caps in an Azure Log Analytics workspace today. There are different reasons why we may want to limit the data coming into our storage account, today we look at both setting the data cap, and alerting us when that data cap is reached through Azure Monitor alerting.
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Deploy a Log Analytics Workspace
A log analytics workspace is an environment that is made especially for storing log data. This can be Azure Monitor, or other diagnostic log data. We’ll cover a few different uses for log analytics data in this article and how to get data into your workspace. Know that each workspace has it’s own data repository,…
