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Hi all. I decided to move from some other apps to Obsidian mainly because of data ownership. Looking for suggestions for a small "project" so I can get familiar with Obsidian.

I want to build a "family health database" where I link person, consultation, doctors, symptoms and medications. From what I know about Obsidian, I'm thinking of just creating notes for each of these types of items, creating a folder for each type of note or just prefixing the note names (like "Doctor - James" or "Med/Paracetamol"). Then I would link the notes appropriately (like "Consultation2026-07-06" link to "Person1", to "Symptom1" and "symptom2", to "Med1", "Med2", Med3". From there, over time I would have some graph patterns and see history through backlinks.

This is the type of thing I would do with multiple tables and references on Notion or Airtable but I'm want to hear what some of you suggest. Would you build it differently? Any plugins that would be useful?

Hello. I am relatively new to Azure and setting up Expressroute for the first time. The circuit is provisioned, BGP up, with a single connection at the moment .

Yesterday I was able to configure the Azure VNet side of things and was able to see prefixes advertised from on-prem, I was able to ping both IPs of the expressroute connection, I could see the on-prem routes on the VM interface effective routes. Suddenly it stopped. I really don't recall changing anything.

Setup
The setup is simple with no crazy routing, firewalls or anything like that. Am I missing something?

• Vnet
  • Subnet
    • Single VM for testing
    • Associated to route table with route propagation
  • Gateway subnet
  • Route table - route propagation enabled. No UDR/static routes. Associated to the VM subnet
• ExpressRoute provisioned
  • secondary connection with ARP visibility and BGP up (0 prefixes received)
  • Route table shows only the two Azure Vnet routes. No on-prem routes
• Connection - VGW to ExpressRoute circuit

Troubleshooting

• Today I worked with the provider. The circuit was de-previsioned and re-provisioned (for a different reason)
• Today, I decided to delete and re-create most of the resources: new vgw, new connection, new route table. ARP is up, BGP is up but still no prefixes advertised. The engineer on the on-prem side confirms that routes are being advertised
• Pings: The on-prem router can ping both IPs of the expressroute p2p connection. They can't see routes advertised.
• Pings: From the Azure VM I cannot ping ANY of the IPs, not even the Microsoft side IP. I can access the internet (SSH through public IP)

Since on-prem can ping microsoft and my VM can't ping even the Microsoft edge, seems like something on the Azure side but I don't know what.

Any other flag, setting, resource I need to create to get this going? I was expecting to be able to at least ping the Azure IP of the express route connections, and I can't.

Thank you

EDIT: This was a misread on my part. The reserved instances are no longer showing up on the new invoices.

Hello all. I recently created some app service reservations on our subscription. The reservations page shows that they are 100% used and we started being charged invoiced for it. However, the resources that should be impacted by these reservations are still showing up full cost on the regular "Azure services" invoice. There are no references for cost deductions or mentions of "discount" or "reservations". I would expect that these would disappear or at least be discounted to zero.

This was set up at the end of April but it it looks like we are being double charged. "Geminying" around was confusing. There are references to filtering for "reservation" pricing model on the cost analysis but the option is not available.

How can I verify that I am getting the benefits of reservations?

Note: I stil struggle to understand how billing works in a Azure. Documentation, examples and instructions are very different from what we see in our console. I had some microsoft employee refer to our subscription as "legacy".

Thank you

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Hello all,

I worked for some time with AWS CLI. One thing I used to do to quickly create resources was describe the resource, collect the JSON, change it slightly and create another by using the "--cli-input-json". It worked quite consistently across services.

Is there an equivalent input in Azure CLI? One that takes the JSON output of the "show" and can use it as input to "create" or "update"?

I found some alternatives by googling but they seem limited to some commands or parts of commands.

Thank you.

Does Microsoft host Azure events like AWS re:invent, re:inforce and summit? If you participated, was it worth it?

After recently changing roles, I am interested in becoming more involved with what is going on with Azure and the community in general.