I'm currently working as an IT Support Specialist at a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). After discussing with our Systems Engineer and Security Engineer, I got the green light to think about potential projects to implement in our Azure environment, as we're only utilizing about 20-25% of the available Azure services. We've got the basics down, like identity and security policies, a domain controller, VMs, and a migrated file server. I'm looking for ideas or projects that could give me practical experience and enhance our Azure setup. Any suggestions on what I could focus on?
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Have you considered creating an internal status page for your applications? It could be a simple dashboard that checks if everything is up and running. Setting up an app service along with a lightweight database for this can be a great project to start. It may seem like a small task at first, but it can become a crucial tool, especially if you integrate it with an alert system for outages. Many teams focus on detailed metrics, but it's super useful to have a basic status check that everyone can access.
That sounds interesting! How do you get notified when something goes down? I'd love to hear more about how you set up the alerts!