You must be wondering how Azure Monitor manages to do this. In fact, under the hood, Azure Monitor uses a set of extensions that are installed on your machine once Insights has been enabled:
They allow for different monitoring capabilities such as network monitoring, forwarding OS events and logs, and crash dumps collection. If you go to the network map of your machine, you will see that there are plenty of different connections being established from your machine that pass information to Azure Storage and Azure Monitor:
Azure Monitor is one of the most important services available on Azure and allows you to monitor your IaaS workloads. It combines monitoring VMs, VNets, and the OS itself to give you a bigger picture of your system. Using Azure Monitor and its workspaces require some experience as this feature does not give you all the...
