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Chendrayan Venkatesan

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Using Azure Monitor Workbook at the workplace - Part 1

Part 1 .... | Azure Monitor Workbook

Chendrayan Venkatesan

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Introduction

Azure Monitor Workbook is one of my favorite services in Azure Cloud. Why? I use to share scripts/queries with the operations team for reportings. During audits, I get more development works. So, I thought of using the Azure Monitor workbooks to serve the purpose. Indeed, the queries I built is tailor-made for my environment. However, through this blog post, I can share the nuances and some ready to use solutions.

Disclaimer: For some reason, below snippet failed. So, I managed to get it done using the joins.

Search-AzGraph -Query "Resources | limit 1" -Include DisplayNames
# ERROR
Search-AzGraph : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Azure VM Inventory

For example, ORG-MGMT-TEANT-PROJECT-OPERATINGENVIRONMENT-SOMETEXT. We require to manipulate texts for the reports.

Resources
| where type =~ 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines'
| project id, subscriptionId, resourceGroup, powerState = split(tostring(properties.extended.instanceView.powerState.code), '/').[1], osType = properties.storageProfile.osDisk.osType 
| join kind=inner(
    ResourceContainers
    | where type =~ 'microsoft.resources/subscriptions'
    | extend managementGroup = parse_json(tostring(tags['hidden-link-ArgMgTag']))[0]
    | extend serviceType = split(managementGroup, 'COLLABRAINS-AZMGMT-TENANT-TEAM-TECHNICAL-ROOT-')[1]
    | project id, subscriptionName = name, subscriptionId, serviceType, operatingEnvironment = case (
        tostring(split(serviceType, '-')[1]) startswith_cs 'DEV', 'DEVELOPMENT',
        tostring(split(serviceType, '-')[1]) startswith_cs 'PRD', 'PRODUCTION',
        'Unknown'), cloudEnvironment = case (
        tostring(managementGroup) has_cs 'VNET', 'VNET',
        tostring(managementGroup) has_cs 'EXTERNAL', 'EXTERNAL',
        'Unknown'), serviceType = case(
        tostring(managementGroup) endswith_cs 'Business-Critical', 'Business-Critical',
        tostring(managementGroup) endswith_cs 'Non-Business-Critical', 'Non-Business-Critical',
        'Unknown')
    )
    on subscriptionId
| project-away id1, subscriptionId1

How this works?

The above query uses a inner joins to combine two different tables (Resources & ResourceContainers) and produce the result. The power state appears as ‘powerstate/running’. So, to make it bit more readable we use split & tostring function and derive the value as ‘running’ for the power state.

Unattached Disks

Resources
| where type =~ 'Microsoft.Compute/disks'
| where properties.diskState =~ 'Unattached'
| project id, subscriptionId, resourceGroup, diskInGB = properties.diskSizeGB, diskState = properties.diskState, timeCreated = properties.timeCreated
| join kind=inner(
    ResourceContainers
    | where type =~ 'microsoft.resources/subscriptions/resourcegroups'
    | where name endswith '-TAGS'
    | project id, subscriptionId, owners = tags.owners, contacts = tags.contacts, costcenter = tags.costcenter)
    on subscriptionId
| project-away id1, subscriptionId1

Why inner join?

Each subscription has a resource group that ends with the name ‘-TEXT,’ which contains the tag’s value like owners, contacts, and cost center. The requirement is to include those values in the report so the operations team can communicate with them.

Charts

This section doesn’t need an introduction. Yes, we do count summarization to plot charts.

Az VM count by OS type

Resources
| where type =~ 'microsoft.compute/virtualMachines'
| project id, subscriptionId, osType = tostring(properties.storageProfile.osDisk.osType)
| summarize count() by osType

alt

Az VM count by power state

Resources
| where type =~ 'microsoft.compute/virtualMachines'
| project id, subscriptionId, powerState = case (
    tostring(properties.extended.instanceView.powerState.code) =~ 'PowerState/running', "Running",
    tostring(properties.extended.instanceView.powerState.code) =~ 'PowerState/deallocated', "Deallocated",
    tostring(properties.extended.instanceView.powerState.code) =~ 'PowerState/stopped', "Stopped",
    tostring(properties.extended.instanceView.powerState.code) =~ 'PowerState/starting', "Starting",
    "Unknown"
    )
| summarize count() by powerState

alt

Az VM count by location

Resources
| where type =~ 'microsoft.compute/virtualMachines'
| project id, subscriptionId, location = tostring(toupper(location))
| summarize count() by location

alt

Now that we have the basic idea of Azure Monitor Workbooks. My next blog post tentatively planned to publish on January 14, 2021, covers tabbed view and arm template.

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