Setting Up Alert for AKS Pod Restarts Using Log Analytics Workspace and Grafana

 Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)  pod restarts can be obtained from the KubePodInventory of the connected log analytics workspace. This data can be depicted in a graph in grafana as described in the post "Pod Restart Counts Grafana Chart with Azure Monitor for AKS". Let's explore how to use same information to create an alert using Grafana to notify when pod restarts are happening in apps in a given kubernetes namespace. 

The expectation is to fire alerts from Grafana as shwon below. Note that the alerts can target to send emails, slack notficaition etc. which is not discussed in this post.

Setup Azure File Share Capacity Alert to Slack with Terraform

 Setting up an Azure File Share capacity alert is useful to know when you reach at least 80% of allocated quota for the file share. This will give the teams ample time to increase the allocation to avoid out of space issues. If we are using standard tier for storage account then we need to use one storage account for each file share, to get the correct alert. Sending the alert to slack channel is a useful way to get properly alerted to take action on time. Let's use an example learn how to setup alerts for multiple Azure file shares uing terraform.

Expectation is to get the alerts to slack channel as shown below.

Azure DevOps Default Enabled Alert/Notification - Which Can be a Nightmare for an Admin

As an admin of an Azure DevOps account you may be creating sample environments to simulate production behaviors, before applying any process changes to a Team project. In this case your choice would be to create a new team project and try out a simulation first. However, you might want to do the simulation with close to production data, so you will try to find a mechanism to make a copy of work items etc. from your production to a simulation Team project. How to do this with various options available is not the discussion today (which we can discuss in another post), as this post  is to show you an alert that must be turned off, before you do any sort of work item data duplication as a bulk, to avoid spam emails to many users of your Azure DevOps account. A lesson learnt the hard way is shared with you to prevent you from falling to same pitfall.