Azure Monitor

• Comprehensive solution for collecting, analysing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.

• Understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.

• Collects the following data:

  • Application monitoring data - Performance and functionality of the code you have written, regardless of its platform.

  • Guest OS monitoring data - OS on which your application is running. This could be running in Azure, another cloud, or on-premises.

  • Azure resource monitoring data - Operation of an Azure resource.

  • Azure subscription monitoring data - Operation and management of an Azure subscription, as well as data about the health and operation of Azure itself.

  • Azure tenant monitoring data - Operation of tenant-level Azure services, such as Azure Active Directory.

• Activity Logs - Record when resources are created or modified.

• Metrics - Tell you how the resource is performing and the resources that it's consuming.

• Enabling diagnostics:

  • Enable guest-level monitoring

  • Performance counters: collect data about the performance

  • Event Logs: enable various event logs

  • Crash Dumps: enable or disable crash dumps

  • Sinks: send your diagnostic data to other services for more analysis

  • Agent: configure agent settings