Background: I have an Azure App Gateway with the Web Application Firewall that is fronting an Azure App Service for http traffic. Issue: Visiting the public URL of my web app in IE works fine, but in Chrome, I get an error ERR_SPDY_INADEQUATE_TRANSPORT_SECURITY What is the general cause? According to this article, "By default, IIS …
Category: Azure PaaS
Linked ARM Templates for a Multi Resource Azure Solution
When deploying a set of azure resources using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates in a single file can leave with a large json file that can be difficult to manage and maintain. To employ modularity and reuse, you can break out azure resources into its own ARM template and have an ARM template link or …
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Quick Summary of Azure Bastion (Preview)
Azure Bastion provides remote desktop or SSH access to Azure Virtual machines that are private within the network. I work with bastions or what I call jump servers to manage Azure IaaS resources quite often and so excited to hear about Azure Bastion as a PaaS offering. A Typical ScenarioIn a secure public cloud environment …
Renewing the Azure App Service SSL Certificate in an Application Gateway HTTP Listener
Scenario: The SSL certificate used in my Azure Application Gateway has expired and needs to be replaced. This SSL certificate was bought through the Azure Portal. Background: The certificate was provisioned through the App Service Certificate service in Azure. The certificate is store in my Azure Key Vault. The App Gateway is used as an …
Penetration Testing Your Web App with Azure Application Gateway WAF Part 1: Intro
In setting up an application with appliances that provide protections from cyber threats, it is always necessary to have penetration testing and monitoring throughout the solution's lifecycle management. I will demonstrate the following scenario: Protect your web app using Azure Application Gateway’s Web Application Firewall features. Enable and configure the WAF The web app is …
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Performance Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 5: Alerting
To continue in building upon the scenarios of this blog series, I will show how to create an Azure Alert for a VMs that have an average CPU utilization greater than 90% over a 10 minute period. And continuing to leverage Log Analytics. Specifications Summary Alert on any VM that has an average CPU utilization …
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Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 3: Dashboard
As shown in my previous post, the log analytics query can return a table or a chart. In this blog post, I will show how to put together various tables and charts together in a dashboard style and for others to see. I will show how to create a dashboard with Azure Portal’s dashboard capability. You can …
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Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 2: Querying
From my previous blog post Monitoring Virtual Machines with Azure Log Analytics Part 1, I have shown Log Analytics connecting to virtual machines to collect telemetry data. This post will show how to query and display tables and charts. In the Log Analytics workspace, click for Log Search. This is the simple query editor against …
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Monitoring Virtual Machines with Azure Log Analytics Part 1
Azure provides a rich set of capabilities for monitoring your Azure resources. Although there is a great deal of documentation and various ways of monitoring services such as Azure Metrics, Application Insights and Azure OMS Log Analytics. I will demonstrate a specific approach to a specific solution that serves to be practical and useful. Provide …
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Using Azure Logic Apps for Listing Azure Resources
Using Azure Logic Apps, I demonstrate how to get Azure resource groups and their containing Azure resource and enter them into a SharePoint List. Although grouping of resource groups and their resources is possible in the Azure Portal, displaying the same information in a SharePoint list could be useful in a dashboard friendly scenario where …
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