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2/26/2024, Azure PaaS Blog
In this blog post, we will investigate the impacts of disabling public network access in the storage account and learn how to establish connections to an Azure Data Lake Storage account from both IaaS (Virtual Machine) and PaaS services (Azure Data Factory), when public network access is disabled. Additionally, we will address common troubleshooting issues that may arise due to this configuration.   Introduction Azure storage accounts provide a scalable and secure way to store and access data in the cloud. This model enables you to control the level of access to your storage accounts that...
1/16/2024, Azure PaaS Blog
Who Deleted a Blob?It is sometimes useful to know who created/modified/deleted a storage blob. For that information to be recorded in a log the authentication must be done with Azure AD to populate the user information correctly. There are two sets of logs that can help, Azure Monitor logs and classic Analytics logs1. Azure monitor storage columns - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/reference/tables/storagebloblogs  Columns of interest CallerIpAddress - The IP address of the requester, including the port number OperationName - The type of REST operation that was...
9/15/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
The current Service Fabric clusters are currently equipped with the MicrosoftMonitoringAgent (MMA) as the default installation. However, it is essential to note that MMA will be deprecated in August 2024, for more details refer- We're retiring the Log Analytics agent in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure. Therefore, if you are currently utilizing MMA, it is imperative to initiate the migration process to AzureMonitoringAgent (AMA).   Installation and Linking of AzureMonitoringAgent to a Log Analytics Workspace: Create a Log Analytics Workspace (if not...
9/14/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
In Storage Account, you can set diagnostic log to EventHub. However, did you ever wonder if you could have a centralized EventHub to take care of these logs? Instead of having multiple EventHubs across each Subscription within the same Management Group? In this article, it will explain to you how to centralize your EventHub.   I. What is the required Permission configuration? Before reading through this article, be sure to have multiple subscriptions. As this will not explain the steps to add subscriptions to your Management Group. This article is based on the fact that you already have...
7/31/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
Background Information   While the our work environments became more and more complex, the need of automation is a fact. Therefore ,I made a demo on how you can automate various administrative tasks performed on a Service Fabric Cluster using the sfctl module and trigger them via Azure Function. On Function, we deploy a Docker Container that has all the necessary tools and permissions to access SF Cluster. The Azure Service Fabric command-line interface (CLI) is a command-line utility for interacting with and managing Service Fabric entities, like cluster, applications and services....
4/20/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
Issue: Unable to delete Azure EventHub Cluster/Namespace/ Entity from Portal/ PowerShell/ CLI.   Case 1: When EventHub tier is Premium and you are unable to delete Azure EventHub namespace and getting conflict operation error 409. Sample error message : "statusMessage":"{\"error\":{\"code\":\"Conflict\",\"message\":\"Namespace provisioning in transition. For more information visit https://aka.ms/eventhubsarmexceptions.   Reason: The reason for stuck state of EventHub namespace or its provisioning failure is due to a known race condition which initiates between two or more internal...
4/14/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
Issue: Few platform logs and metrics go missing when streaming them from Diagnostic Setting to Event Hub especially when Event Hub is Throttling.   Scenario: Using Diagnostic setting users route platform logs and metrics to Azure Event Hub (EH). These events are consumed by partner SIEM and Monitoring tools. At times users complain that events that occurred in the system or certain metrics\logs\traces has not reached the Event Hub.   Validation: Validate if the event\metric\log has been generated by the platform\application. Also check if the Diagnostic setting is properly configured to...
3/30/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
Scenario: Calls to Service Bus and Event Hub failing with Server Error \ Internal Server Error \ HTTP Error 500 Errors.   Issue Description: SB\EH API calls by the client application (usually sender or consumer) fails with Internal Server Error. The corresponding exception messages are something like this – “The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error”. The exception type and exception messages may vary somewhat based on the programming language of the SDK, SDK version, Wrappers, etc. There are a lot of frequently asked questions related to the Server Error and I...