Monitoring IT infrastructure with Azure

IT infrastructure often is comprised of private & public cloud deployments spread across multiple locations. Hence it becomes a challenge to design and implement monitoring solutions. Microsoft Azure’s monitoring solutions bridge this gap by collecting logs from both Azure, other clouds & on-premises data center and maintain a repository in a single place, from admins can query and get alerted.

5 steps to design an ideal monitoring solution involves,

1. Identifying data sources
2. Data collection
3. Storage of logs
4. Analysis & Diagnostics
5. Visualization & Integration

3 major monitoring solutions of Azure,

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics Workspace

 

Application Insights

Azure Monitor is a centralized place for monitoring everything in Azure. While Log analytics workspace integrates your azure environment with an on-premise datacenter and other clouds (previously known as OMS, Operations management suite).

Both these services are widely used by Administrators. For developers & DevOps professionals, Application Insights help in detecting performance & diagnose issues while providing connection points to various development tools

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