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Windows

nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com

Linux

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

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Here is how you can emulate Azure managed identity on your local system by running an instance metadata service identity endpoint and simulating the token API to return an access token from Azure CLI. You can use this for example to log into SQL Server Management studio using your Azure CLI identity, or locally test code that uses the "Azure only" [ManagedIdentityCredential](https://learn

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This PowerShell script streams Application Insights live metric traces to your local system and displays them in a PowerShell grid view. This is useful since the Azure Portal trace viewing experience is somewhat limited.

Warning

This script uses undocumented functionality. Exercise caution when running any scripts against your infrastructure.

To use:

1. Ensure you are logged in using Azure CLI and have selected the relevant subscription.
2. Run the script in a PowerShell terminal (tested only with PowerShell 7.3).
3. Select the relevant Application Insights resource from the first grid view. This lists all Application Insights resources in the Azure CL

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This script retrieves published Azure location information and transforms it into GeoJSON format, with Point features indicating Azure regions and LineString features indicating links between paired regions.

$locations=az account list-locations --query "[?metadata.regionType=='Physical']"|convertfrom-json
@{type='FeatureCollection';features=$($locations|?{$_.metadata.pairedRegion.count -eq 1}|%{$r=$_;$p=$locations|?{$_.name -eq $r.metadata.pairedRegion[0].name}|select -first 1;if($null -ne $p -and -not (($r.metadata.longitude -eq 0 -and $r.metadata.latitude -eq 0) -or ($p.metadata.longitude -eq 0 -and $p.meta