Custom fields in Azure Monitor (opens in new tab) allows users to create new records from an existing one using examples.
I’ve been blown away by what customers are able to do with it. Once customer had a requirement where they needed to use alerts in OMS via custom fields over SCOM data to extract AD information. The information was complicated and laid out in way where extraction via Regex would have been difficult and the customer did not want to learn Regex. Custom fields enabled them to extract the data easily so they could build alerts and dashboards based on these new fields.
Custom fields is very useful and is used in all my demos. Once I dug into it I found so many use cases! All of our verbose alert descriptions are great now because now I can pull the data out easily and put it into visualizations. The accuracy of the field extractions has improved so much since the preview I haven’t had any issues in a long time.”
– Shawn Tierney (MVP, Infront Consulting)
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