One of the most consequential yet often overlooked architectural decisions in Azure Functions deployments is how you configure storage accounts. … More
Tag: Azure Monitor
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release: the state of SOAP deprecation.
I think that many of you know that quite a long time ago Microsoft raised an alert saying that exposing … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: triggering an Azure DevOps pipeline when a tenant upgrade occurs.
Last week I had a quick message exchangement with a partner asking how to automatically trigger an Azure DevOps pipeline … More
Azure Managed Grafana for Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry? It’s time to upgrade.
About two years ago at Directions EMEA 2022 I did a demo on exposing Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry with … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring field changes with telemetry is better…
In a traditional Dynamics 365 Business Central project, expecially when the customer is a large company, it’s quite often requested … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Edit in Excel and Long Running SQL queries
Dynamics 365 Business Central has (from a long time) a nice feature for the end user called Edit in Excel. … More
Audit Dynamics 365 Business Central operations in Microsoft Purview: what is it?
Some days ago Microsoft announced the upcoming new features for the new products wave and also Dynamics 365 Business Central … More
Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage (part 2)
In a previous post I wrote about how you can monitor your Azure OpenAI usage with Azure Monitor and Application … More
Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage
I want to continue the saga of “using Azure OpenAI in a professional way” by talking a bit about a … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: automate the telemetry setup.
Some days ago I was reading a summary made by Kennie about the Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on data-driven … More
Azure Functions and Blob Triggers: be careful on the binding type.
This post is borned to signal a problem that I’ve recently found in a customer and I think that sharing … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: is my on-premises customer ready for SaaS?
“Is my Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises customer ready to be moved on SaaS?“. “Will the SaaS platform able to … More
Collect Microsoft Graph Activity Logs in Azure Monitor
Few days ago Microsoft announced the public preview of a very interesting feature: Microsoft Graph Activity Logs in Azure Monitor. … More
Transition to using Standard Tests for availability tests in Azure Application Insights
In the past I talked about the possibility to monitor the availability of a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant (or … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: start checking per-tenant extension (PTE) validation events in telemetry
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release adds the possibility via telemetry to immediately discover if per-tenant extensions (PTE) … More
Power Automate telemetry data with Azure Application Insights
Azure Application Insights is the Azure Monitor extension (service) for monitoring the performance of live cloud applications, collecting real-time telemetries and … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry with Azure Managed Grafana: Private Access Setup
Probably many of you knows that for creating control dashboards for some Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenants of for … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetries for Azure Functions
In my Azure Functions session at latest BC TechDays in Belgium I spent some minutes showing the Azure Functions module … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure Functions and telemetries: best practices
Last week at DynamicsMinds conference, after my session about Azure Functions I’ve received an interesting question: in a context of … More
Azure Logic Apps: KQL for having an overview of your scheduled workflows
Last week I was working with a partner on creating some cloud-based workflows for Dynamics 365 Business Central integrations with … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry – March 2023 Update
In these hours Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 will join the public preview state and together with this … More
Monitoring your Azure Logic Apps workflows in an advanced way with telemetries
I talked here a lot on monitoring a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant by using telemetry, but the telemetry practice … More
Telemetry with Azure Application Insights: prevent anomalies on data ingestion
Some days ago I was helping a partner on setting up the telemetries for one of their customer’s Dynamics 365 … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: new year improvements and news
I think that you already know that the area of telemetries is a fast moving area in the Dynamics 365 … More
Some tips to improve security of your Azure Blob Storage (expecially with Dynamics 365 Business Central)
In these days I’m happy to see that after my latest Azure training in Microsoft Italy (3 weeks ago) many … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry report as Adaptive Card on Teams
During my telemetry session at last Directions EMEA in Hamburg and also on my latest Telemetry workshop in Microsoft Italy … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: Grafana dashboard template
PREFACE: Microsoft has created two wonderful Power BI apps for analyzing Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: and these (together with … More
Introducing Azure Managed Grafana for improving your Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry views
Have you ever heard about Grafana? Grafana is an open and composable observability and data visualization platform that permits you … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: filtering telemetry signals with Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules
One of the main issues on using Azure Application Insights for collecting telemetry from a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: set up alerts on job queue failures
Some days ago I was with a partner for checking a Dynamics 365 Business Central project. This project has a … More
Testing Azure Functions or Dynamics 365 Business Central API calls performances with BenchmarkDotNet
In these days, for a big cloud-based project, I had the need to conduct an assessment of the different cloud … More
Microsoft Reactor: Proactive monitoring of your Azure cloud applications
Are you interested on efficiently monitoring your Azure cloud workloads? Are you curious about all the monitoring possibilities (and more) … More
Azure tenant’s telemetry at your fingertips
Monitoring is an essential task for handling a cloud tenant at best. Azure has built-in features for monitoring a tenant, … More
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