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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Integrating Power BI

Gathering data and storing it at a central repository is an important aspect. However, there should be tools and utilities to process the data and generate insights out of it. Power BI is a Microsoft-provided service specifically meant for visualization and generating insights from raw data.

Power BI can be enabled using the Settings menu just such as the configuration for Azure automation. The connection to Power BI should be made from the Settings menu. Once, this connection is made, it can be used to send log analytics data to Power BI.

Log analytics provides two different ways to interact with Power BI. First it needs to be enabled from the Settings menu.

Like alerts, the Power BI menu option is available from the log search top level menu. Clicking on it helps in configuring the Power BI connectivity. A scheduler runs periodically to execute search queries...