Azure Monitor

• Definition: Azure Monitor is the service that provides the list of azure resources and services that are not performing with their full potential (100%).
• Using Azure Monitor you can:
  • Get full-stack visibility on Azure resources
  • Find and fix problems
  • Optimize your performance
  • Understand customer behavior all in one place
• As soon as you create the subscription and start creating/adding resources, Azure monitor starts collecting the data.
• The main purpose of using Azure Monitor is,
  • To Maximize performance
  • To Maximize Availability
  • Identify issues before they become major problems

Telemetry

• Definition: Telemetry is information about how services or devices are performing.
• This information is passed to a central point for further analysis.
• In Azure, the telemetry all goes into Azure Monitor, which gives you a dashboard in the Azure portal.
• This telemetry is fed constantly into Azure Monitor that collects and monitors it all and this happens with most Azure services.
• You can store and analyze all your telemetry in a centralized and fully managed location in the Azure portal.
• You can use an interactive query language to query the telemetry data and learn about the data as well.
• Use machine learning to predict and recognize any problems with your resources.

What data Azure Monitor collects?

• Application monitoring data: Data about the performance and functionality of the code you have written, irrespective of the platform.
• Guest OS monitoring data: Data about the Operating system your code/application is running on. This could be running in Azure, another cloud, or on-premises.
• Azure resources monitoring data: Data about the operations of an Azure resource.
• Azure subscription monitoring data: Data about management and operation of the Azure subscription and data about health and operation of Azure itself.
• Azure tenant monitoring data: Data about tenant-level Azure services like Azure Active Directory.