Summary

Monitoring is an important architectural aspect for any solution. It is also the first step towards auditability. It enables operations to manage the solution, both reactively and proactively. It helps provide necessary records for troubleshooting and fixing issues that might arise from platforms and applications. There are many resources in Azure specific to implementing monitoring for Azure, other clouds, and on-premise data centers. Application insights, OMS, and log analytics are some of the important resources in this regard. Needless to say, it is a must for making your solutions and products better by innovating based on insights from monitoring data.