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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

By : Chiyo Odika
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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

By: Chiyo Odika

Overview of this book

Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook begins with an overview of how to hit the ground running with OMS insights and analytics. Next, you will learn to search and analyze data to retrieve actionable insights, review alert generation from the analyzed data, and use basic and advanced Log search queries in Azure Log Analytics. Following this, you will explore some other management solutions that provide functionality related to workload assessment, application dependency mapping, automation and configuration management, and security and compliance. You will also become well versed with the data protection and recovery functionalities of OMS Protection and Recovery, and learn how to use Azure Automation components and features in OMS. Finally you will learn how to evaluate key considerations for using the Security and Audit solution, and working with Security and Compliance in OMS. By the end of the book, you will be able to configure and utilize solution offerings in OMS, understand OMS workflows, how to unlock insights, integrate capabilities into new or existing workflows, manage configurations, and automate tasks and processes.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introduction

The log search feature enables you to combine, correlate, query, and retrieve data from Log Analytics. Recall that Log Analytics enables you to collect and aggregate large amounts of data from heterogeneous sources; we reviewed some of those capabilities in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Microsoft Operations Management Suite. As mentioned in the previous chapter, the collected data, is only as useful as the insights that can be derived from them, and the subsequent actions that those insights inform. This is where the Log Analytics query language comes to the fore.

The new and improved Log Analytics query language is based on Analytics (codenamed Kusto)—the powerful search feature in Application Insights, which Microsoft has recently made available as an upgrade for Log Analytics workspaces. The Log Analytics query language is optimized to perform and handle...