Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud observability service for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and acting on telemetry from resources and applications.
Microsoft Azure in Action
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's Azure observability service for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from cloud resources and applications.
- How it is used
- Uses telemetry to detect, investigate, and respond to problems in Azure VMs and Cosmos DB.
- How deep it goes
- Explains signal types, VM investigation, and alert choices, then demonstrates a heartbeat query and alert configuration.
- Examples
- Shows VM CPU charts, a heartbeat query, a CPU alert workflow, and a Cosmos DB request-unit alert command.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure it to inspect VM health, query diagnostic logs, and create alerts for actionable conditions.
Azure Security
Azure Monitor is Azure’s service for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and acting on telemetry from cloud resources and applications.
- How it is used
- Supports standardized telemetry collection, security investigation, visualization, and alert-driven response across Azure environments.
- How deep it goes
- Explains telemetry sources, automatic versus configured collection, diagnostic settings, agents, data collection rules, and alerts without exhaustive functionality coverage.
- Examples
- Uses platform metrics, resource logs, activity logs, guest OS logs, and virtual-machine CPU thresholds as operational examples.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Azure Monitor collection and alerts to investigate suspicious activity and identify anomalous resource usage.
Related concepts
- alertingused by · Alerting is the generation and delivery of notifications when monitored conditions or events meet defined criteria or require attention or action.
- metric alertused by · A metric alert is a monitoring rule that triggers when a measured numeric metric satisfies a configured condition.
- telemetryuses · Telemetry is automatically generated or collected operational data describing a system’s activity, state, behavior, or performance.
- metricproduces · A metric is a quantitative measure used to characterize or assess a property, condition, behavior, performance, or outcome.
- Log Analyticsuses · Log Analytics is an Azure Monitor service and data store for collecting, retaining, querying, and analyzing logs, telemetry, and related operational data.
- unified destinationkind of · A unified destination is an observability offering that combines frontend presentation capabilities with backend storage and query capabilities.
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