MMMarcel Michauinblog.marcelmichau.dev路Feb 28, 2025 路 10 min readFiltering Telemetry in .NETBackground Telemetry is crucial to observability, but too much telemetry can drown out important signals & can lead to noisy logs & spending more $$$ to store them in Azure Log Analytics, Splunk, DynaTrace, DataDog, etc. This post details some guidel...00
MMMarcel Michauinblog.marcelmichau.dev路May 31, 2024 路 3 min readAzure SQL - Create SQL User From Managed IdentityWhen using Managed Identities in Azure, a common requirement is creating a SQL user for your app's Managed Identity in your Azure SQL Database from some CI/CD pipeline. Sometimes apps need to talk to a database - who knew? According to the documentat...00
MMMarcel Michauinblog.marcelmichau.dev路Apr 12, 2024 路 7 min readMicrosoft Entra ID - Call Protected APIs using Managed Identities馃挕 UPDATE: As of 8 May 2025, the ability to configure an application to trust a managed identity is generally available - The below post documents a different mechanism to achieving a similar goal, though with some caveats. The official documentation...00
MMMarcel Michauinblog.marcelmichau.dev路Aug 31, 2023 路 8 min readReduce Azure Log Analytics Cost by Tweaking Health Checks LoggingOpen any book on building software & you will eventually spot a piece of wisdom resembling the following: Observability is important I agree with that statement. It's crucial to be able to ascertain that a system is functioning correctly, and when ...00
MMMarcel Michauinblog.marcelmichau.dev路Jul 21, 2021 路 6 min readTaming Startup.cs in ASP.NET CorePhoto by Safar Safarov on Unsplash Overview There are plenty of ASP.NET Core projects out on the internet. All of them have one thing in common. The Startup.cs file. There's also another thing that a lot of these Startup.cs files have in common - th...00
