Azure Monitor overview

December 02, 2020

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Azure Monitor maximizes the availability and performance of your applications and services by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.

All data collected by Azure Monitor fits into one of two fundamental types, metrics and logs. Metrics are numerical values that describe some aspect of a system at a particular point in time. They are lightweight and capable of supporting near real-time scenarios. Logs contain different kinds of data organized into records with different sets of properties for each type. Telemetry such as events and traces are stored as logs in addition to performance data so that it can all be combined for analysis.

Just a few examples of what you can do with Azure Monitor include:

Detect and diagnose issues across applications and dependencies with Application Insights.
Correlate infrastructure issues with Azure Monitor for VMs and Azure Monitor for Containers.
Drill into your monitoring data with Log Analytics for troubleshooting and deep diagnostics.
Support operations at scale with smart alerts and automated actions.
Create visualizations with Azure dashboards and workbooks.