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Build production-ready dashboards, workbooks, and alerting for enterprise Azure infrastructure.
The dashboard problem: Most Azure dashboards are "data dumps"—dozens of tiles showing metrics, logs, and alerts with no context. Nobody knows what's actionable.
After building dashboards for Cloud NOC teams and executives, I've learned that effective monitoring requires three layers:
This hub contains the dashboard patterns, workbook templates, and monitoring strategies I've used to build observability systems that teams actually use—from Cloud NOC to FinOps to security.
Design principles for effective Azure dashboards
2025-10-03
New Azure admins are told to 'use workbooks' the same way students are told to 'solve for X' - without understanding what problem it solves.
Build interactive, data-driven workbooks for deep analysis
2025-09-28
Free Azure Monitor Workbook template with 200+ services, security monitoring, cost optimization, and global filtering. Enhanced version of Billy York's inventory workbook with full source code on GitHub.
2025-10-02
Everyone links to Chris Bowman's template. Nobody explains why it's 19GB and needs Premium. Here's what's actually happening.
Production dashboard templates you can deploy today
2025-10-06
Track IPs across Azure subscriptions with this free IPAM tool. Search IPs, detect conflicts, reserve ranges, visualize network topology. Built for enterprise consolidation managing 44+ subscriptions. Full source code on GitHub.
Production-ready code and tools
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