Private Link reality bites – Your routes could be lying
Welcome to the second post in the Private Link Reality Bites series! After the first post where we went over the concept of private endpoints as control plane elements, in…
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Grafana and VNet Flow Logs
I would like to credit for this blog post to Abhishek Sharma, talking to him gave me the main inspiration for some of the concepts you are going to see below. Heartfelt thanks go as well to Niti Gupta, a kickass Microsoft engineer who can make Azure Monitor…
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