Short, honest write-ups of the ideas that come up in interviews and on the job. Each one teaches the concept properly, cites the Microsoft documentation, and points back to the class that drills it until it sticks.
KQL reads top-to-bottom as a pipeline. Eight copy-paste queries for the tasks you run in Azure Monitor, each explained, plus a five-operator cheat sheet.
One workspace per team, per environment, per region? Microsoft's answer is blunt: start with one and split only when a hard requirement forces it. The real drivers are residency, access, retention, and cost — not the org chart.
Collecting telemetry is worthless if nobody looks until a customer complains. An alert rule watches the data; an action group decides who gets told and what happens next — three alerts that fire beat forty that get muted.
Three names that sound like rival products trip up nearly everyone. They are one observability service and two of its parts — and once you see how the telemetry flows, the confusion evaporates.
Kusto Query Language looks intimidating until you see the trick: start with a table and push it through a pipe, one small operator at a time. Learn five of them and you can answer real questions about your environment today.
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