Summary
This module presented an overview of monitoring, Azure Monitor, and Azure Monitor capabilities that are important to the success of your Azure deployments. You learned about Azure Monitor Metrics and Azure Monitor Logs, two key ways to monitor the health, behavior, and performance of Azure applications and infrastructure.
You also saw how you can consume and transmit monitoring information with Azure Monitor Insights, visualizations, and dashboards. You learned about alerts and automated actions that can proactively respond to and sometimes correct application issues.
Azure Monitor is a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps you evaluate performance and proactively identify issues to maximize the availability and performance of your Azure resources.
Learn more
Learn more about the Azure Monitor concepts and processes this overview introduced.
Azure Monitor:
Data collection:
- Azure Monitor data sources and data collection methods
- Data collection rules (DCRs) in Azure Monitor
- Azure Monitor Agent overview
- Monitor Kubernetes clusters using Azure services and cloud native tools
Azure Monitor Metrics:
- Azure Monitor Metrics overview
- Custom metrics in Azure Monitor (preview)
- Azure Monitor and Prometheus
- Live Metrics: Monitor and diagnose with 1-second latency
- Analyze metrics with Azure Monitor metrics explorer
Azure Monitor Logs:
- Azure Monitor Logs overview
- Send Azure resource logs to Log Analytics workspaces, Event Hubs, or Azure Storage
Insights and visualizations:
- Azure Monitor Insights overview
- Application Insights overview
- Azure Monitor features for Kubernetes monitoring
- VM Insights
- Network Insights
- Azure Workbooks
Automated actions:
- What are Azure Monitor alerts?
- Overview of autoscale in Azure
- Detect and mitigate potential issues using AIOps and machine learning in Azure Monitor