Set alerts on crashed Kubernetes pods in Azure Kubernetes Service

by Karl Solgård

It's not always easy to tell what is happening inside a kubernetes [https://kubernetes.io/] cluster. There are many alternatives like prometheus [https://prometheus.io/] that can do alerting and monitoring for you. However by using AKS [https://azure.microsoft.com/nb-no/services/kubernetes-service/] (Azure Kubernetes Service) you…

Handy KQL queries for .NET applications in Application Insights

by Karl Solgård

In Novacare, we utilize Application Insights [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview] to monitor our applications. Application Insights uses a query language called Kusto Query Language [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/] (KQL for short). Sometimes it's hard to know what data to…