Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Azure Security Center can detect emerging vulnerabilities in Linux

Recently a new flaw was discovered in PolKit - a component which controls system-wide privileges in Unix OS. This vulnerability potentially allows unprivileged account to have root permission. In this blog post, we will focus on the recent vulnerability, demonstrate how attacker can easily abuse and weaponize it....

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Development, source control, and CI/CD for Azure Stream Analytics jobs

Do you know how to develop and source control your Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) jobs? Do you know how to setup automated processes to build, test, and deploy these jobs to multiple environments? Stream Analytics Visual Studio tools together with Azure Pipelines provides an integrated environment that...

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Connecting Node-RED to Azure IoT Central

Today I want to show how simple it is to connect a temperature/humidity sensor to Azure IoT Central using a Raspberry Pi and Node-RED. As many of you know, Raspberry Pi is a small, single-board computer. Its low cost, low power nature makes it a natural fit for...

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Export data in near real-time from Azure IoT Central

We are happy to share that you can now export data to Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus in near real-time from your Azure IoT Central app! Previously, Continuous Data Export enabled exporting your IoT Central measurements, devices, and device templates data to your Azure Blob Storage...

Thursday, 17 January 2019

Azure Data Explorer plugin for Grafana dashboards

Are you using Azure Data Explorer to query vast amounts of data? Are you following business metrics and KPIs with Grafana dashboards? Creating a Grafana data source with Azure Data Explorer has never been easier. Grafana is a leading open source software designed for visualizing time series analytics....

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Create alerts to proactively monitor your data factory pipelines

Data integration is complex and helps organizations combine data and business processes in hybrid data environments. The increase in volume, variety, and velocity of data has led to delays in monitoring and reacting to issues. Organizations want to reduce the risk of data integration activity failures and the...

Saturday, 12 January 2019

Best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for MariaDB monitoring

Microsoft’s Azure Database for open sources announced the general availability of MariaDB. This blog intends to share some guidance and best practices for alerting on the most commonly monitored metrics for MariaDB. Whether you are a developer, a database analyst, a site reliability engineer, or a DevOps professional...

Friday, 11 January 2019

Performance troubleshooting using new Azure Database for PostgreSQL features

At Ignite 2018, Microsoft’s Azure Database for PostgreSQL announced the preview of Query Store (QS), Query Performance Insight (QPI), and Performance Recommendations (PR) to help ease performance troubleshooting, in response to customer feedback. This blog intends to inspire ideas on how you can use features that are currently...

Thursday, 10 January 2019

Streamlined development experience with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0

We’re happy to announce the release of Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0. It includes new features such as application versioning, updated messaging, and streamlined smart contract development. You can deploy a new instance of Workbench through the Azure portal or upgrade existing deployments to 1.6.0 using our upgrade script....

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