More interesting capabilities can be found in the Monitoring section:
Figure 6.10 – Insights blade
Most of the features are made available by another Azure service named Azure Monitor. By going to the Insights section, you will be able to enable this feature:
Figure 6.11 – Getting started with Insights
When you click the Enable button, this functionality will be onboarded onto the VM (this can take a few minutes, so be patient). With Insights and a workspace installed, you will be able to see additional things regarding your machine, such as the topology of the system:
Figure 6.12 – Topology of your network traffic
As you can see, you are able to analyze all the open ports and active processes running on the machine. Installing the extension also allows you to query collected data using the Logs blade:
Figure 6.13 – Data gathered by monitoring extensions on a machine
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