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Azure Monitor

  • Azure Monitor is priced based on the data ingestion and retention

Azure Monitor

  • View Metrics for resources
  • CPU, disk, network, ...
  • Activity logs
  • Control plane activities
  • When a VM is stopped or created
  • Log Analytics Workspace
  • Central solution for all your logs
  • Application Insights
  • Performance
  • Management system for your live applications

Activity Logs

  • Log all activities that are happening in your Azure account

  • Activity types

  • Administrative: Create, update, delete resources operations

  • Service Health: service health incidents
  • Resource Health: resource health incidents
  • Alert: Activation of alerts
  • Autoscale: autoscaling events
  • Recommendation: recommendations from azure advisor
  • Security: alerts from Azure Security Center

  • Policy: alerts from Azure Policy

  • Logs can be sent to:

  • Log Analytics
  • Storage Account
  • Event hub
  • Download (CSV)

Metrics

  • View metrics of multiple resources
  • Example metrics: Percentage CPU, Memory, Networking

Alerting

  • Alerts can be set for metrics or activity logs
  • A scope, condition and action define a alerting rule
  • Scope: resource to be monitored
  • Condition: metrics threshold or administrative activity. E.g., CPU > 85% or when a VM is deleted
  • Action: Set of instructions to trigger. E.g., playbook, email, sms, etc
  • New alert rules can be created based on the query established under the log tab