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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook: Enhance your management experience and capabilities across your cloud and on-premises environments with Microsoft OMS

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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

Searching and Analyzing OMS Data

In this chapter, we will take a look at the types of data that are collected from the sources that were mentioned in the previous chapter, and learn how to search and analyze the data using the new Azure Log Analytics query language. This new and powerful query language is a feature included in the enhanced Azure Log Analytics service, and it differs significantly from the legacy query language. Readers will learn how to search and analyze data, perform smart analytics, and glean deep, useful, and actionable insights from their collected data. Topics in this chapter include the following:

  • Understanding the Azure Log Analytics query language
  • Working with queries in the Analytics portal
  • Working with visualizations

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...

Understanding the Azure Log Analytics query language

The Log Analytics query language is an interactive query language that enables you to unlock valuable insights from your data by querying, combining, filtering, joining, and performing numerous other operations on your data in Log Analytics.

Getting ready

To work with the Log Analytics query language, you can write search queries from the log search page in Azure Log Analytics. Alternatively, you can use the Analytics portal to write search queries. The Analytics portal is a web tool created expressly for writing and executing Log Analytics queries. It offers a unique environment for working with both simple and advanced analytics, advanced diagnostics, and feature-rich...

Working with queries in the Analytics portal

In this recipe, we will review query writing in more detail, and show how to write basic queries.

Azure Log Analytics queries can start with either a table name or a search command. In either case, a table will always be the reference point because Log Analytics data sources store their data in dedicated tables in a workspace (or in several workspaces). The start of a query must, therefore, define a clear scope for the query.

While search commands are effective, a table-based query is preferable for efficiency, returning the relevant data and providing optimal query performance.

We will review both query types in this recipe.

How to do it...

Let's begin with table-based queries...

Working with visualizations

OMS makes visualizing your indexed and queried data incredibly easy. In the OMS and Log Analytics portals, there's a dedicated view designer feature with which you can create custom views and visualizations of your data. The new Analytics portal for Azure Log Analytics makes available immediate and powerful visualization capabilities for seamless visualization of your queried data.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Azure portal (http://portal.azure.com) and sign in.
  2. In the Azure portal, type Log Analytics in the Search resources search field and select your workspace.
  3. In the Log Analytics blade for your workspace, click the Log Search button to take you to the search...
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Key benefits

  • • Empower yourself with practical recipes to collect and analyze operational insights on Windows and Linux servers in your on premises datacenters and in any public cloud environments such as Azure and AWS.
  • • Build capabilities through practical tasks and techniques to collect and analyze machine data
  • • Address business challenges and discover means to accommodate workloads and instances in a low cost manner

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is written for the IT professional and general reader who is interested in technology themes such as DevOps, Big Data Analytics, and digital transformation concepts. Azure and other cloud platform administrators, cloud professionals, and technology analysts who would like to solve everyday problems quickly and efficiently with hybrid management tools available in the Microsoft product ecosystem will derive much value from this book. Prior experience with OMS 2012 would be helpful.

What you will learn

  • • Understand the important architectural considerations and strategies for OMS
  • • Use advanced search query commands and strategies to derive insights from indexed data
  • • Make use of alerting in OMS such as alert actions, and available options for the entire lifecycle of the alert
  • • Discover some practical tips for monitoring Azure container service containers and clusters using OMS
  • • Review and use the backup options available through the Azure backup service, as well as data recovery options available through Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
  • • Understand how to advance important DevOps concepts within your IT organization
  • • Learn how to manage configurations and automate process

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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
Getting Started with Microsoft Operations Management Suite Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Searching and Analyzing OMS Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Alerts in OMS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Protecting and Recovering Data with OMS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Configuration Management and Automation with OMS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Security and Compliance in OMS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Wire Data 2.0 and Service Map Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploring Other Management Solutions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cross Platform Management with OMS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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