Monitoring

An effective monitoring strategy is an essential part of the journey in Azure. Monitoring in Azure comprises of a group of individual services that come together to deliver comprehensive telemetry about your applications and resources in Azure. These services can also span to on-premise to provide a single source of truth for your monitoring. Monitoring fits into a few categories.

Let's take a look at them.

• Core capabilities, which include Azure Monitor, Advisor, Service Health, and Activity Log
• Shared capabilities, which include Dashboards, Alerts, and Metric Explorer
• Infrastructure capabilities, which include network monitoring, Service Map, Management Solutions, and Log Analytics.
• Application capabilities, which include Application Insights

Let take a moment to look into each of them, so we can better understand how we can use them.

Core capabilities

Core monitoring provides fundamental core telemetry monitoring across Azure resources and requires minimal configuration to use. Azure...