Andrew Matveychuk

Hi, I'm Andrew Matveychuk, I write this blog, work with Microsoft Azure and any other interesting stuff

Aug 7, 2023 Azure Monitor IT Operations How To

How to use change history in Azure Monitor Workbooks

Anyone who has worked in IT Operations long enough knows that many incidents and service outages happen due to recent application configuration changes. What is

Jul 25, 2023 Microsoft Azure System Design IT Operations

Naming convention for Azure resources

The primary intent of having a naming convention for Azure resources is to be able to identify essential information about a resource, for example: * related

Jul 17, 2023 Microsoft Azure FinOps

Azure Savings Plans vs. Azure Reservations

Last fall Microsoft announced a new cost-saving option for your workloads in Azure called Savings Plans. Many customers who already were using Reservations (aka Azure Reserved Instances) to save on their cloud costs mistakenly perceived Savings Plans as a replacement for them.

Jun 23, 2023 Microsoft Azure IT Operations How To

How to find unused Azure resources

This is probably one of the Top-10 questions I hear from the customers running their workloads in Azure. The question’s intent might vary, but

May 15, 2023 CMDB Microsoft Azure ITIL How To Azure Policy

How to validate Azure tags

This blog post is a follow-up to my series of running CMDB for Azure resources. In the previous parts, I shared some guiding principles for organizing your CMDB using Azure tags, so here, I will cover some practical examples of keeping your Azure tags neat and structured at scale.