Azure Monitor agent
The Azure Monitor agent is Microsoft's host monitoring agent that collects telemetry according to data collection rules and sends it to Azure Monitor destinations.
Azure Security
Azure Monitor Agent is Microsoft's agent for collecting and routing monitoring data from Azure resources and connected machines to supported Azure monitoring services.
- How it is used
- Collects guest OS telemetry from Azure VMs for Azure Monitor analysis and security investigation.
- How deep it goes
- Explains prerequisites, CLI installation, managed identities, regional endpoints, and DCR-based collection routing.
- Examples
- Walks through a Linux authentication-data DCR and an Azure CLI Windows VM extension installation.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure it by installing AMA and defining DCRs that select VM data sources and destinations.
Microsoft Azure in Action
The Azure Monitor Agent is an Azure monitoring agent installed on supported machines to collect telemetry according to data collection rules and send it to monitoring destinations.
- How it is used
- Collects virtual-machine telemetry for Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, performance visibility, troubleshooting, and alerting.
- How deep it goes
- Explains installation, verification, DCR customization, data types, and destinations, while stopping short of detailed deployment automation.
- Examples
- Uses VM Insights charts, performance counters, Windows Event Logs, syslog, Log Analytics queries, and monitoring alerts.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure AMA through VM Insights and DCRs to collect selected telemetry and route it to monitoring destinations.
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Related concepts
- Log Analytics agentalternative to · The Log Analytics agent is Microsoft's legacy host agent for collecting machine telemetry and sending it to a Log Analytics workspace.
- data collection ruleconfigured by · A data collection rule is an Azure Monitor configuration that specifies data sources, transformations, and destinations for monitoring data.
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