How to get the creation timestamp of an Azure resource
In this article I describe how to make use of the Azure REST API to retrieve the creation timestamp of any Azure resource. Unfortunately this info is not available via Portal or CLI.…
How to create an alert rule using PowerShell and Azure CLI
I found it rather difficult to create an alert rule using PowerShell as opposed to using Azure CLI. That's why I thought it is worth a post. I assume there exists a resource group called rg-training and a VM named VM1. In general, an alert rule consists of the following components…
How to configure defaults for the Azure CLI
While using the Azure CLI I found it very frustrating to repeat information like the resource group name and other things over and over again. But luckily Microsoft took care of this…