Azure Workbooks provide a powerful and flexible way to visualize, analyze, and share data within the Azure ecosystem. In this session, we’ll take you on a journey through Azure Workbooks, covering everything from the basics to advanced capabilities. Discover how to easily build dashboards, generate real-time insights, and create actionable reports. We'll showcase practical use cases such as monitoring resources, analyzing log data, and improving operational workflows. Additionally, we’ll demonstrate how to integrate Azure Workbooks into CI/CD pipelines for streamlined deployment and consistent management across environments. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced cloud professional, this session offers valuable tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your Azure environment. Join us and learn how Azure Workbooks can empower you to make better data-driven decisions and optimize your deployment processes.

In this session we will explore the practical implementation and management of Azure's Web Application Firewall (WAF) within both Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door. Attendees will gain hands-on insights into configuring WAF policies, understanding threat protection mechanisms, and optimizing security for web applications. We will cover real-world scenarios, best practices, and troubleshooting techniques to ensure robust application security.

How do you use Azure Application Insights to get insights into your software and logging? We will first cover the basics of Azure Application Insights to get a shared base. Then we discuss the ways to access your logging. In the demo, I will show how you can get insights into the logging generated by a web app or function app. We will create some diagrams using the KQL (Kusto Query Language). We will close with some practical business cases where measuring is critical. In Dutch we say: "meten is weten" wich means "Measuring is knowing".