Microsoft Log Analytics is a part of the operations management suite. It is a service in Azure that collects log data from multiple systems in a single data store in a central place. It consists of two important components:
- The Azure Log Analytics portal with alerting, reporting and analyzing features
- The OMS Agent to install on the virtual machine
There is also a mobile app available (in the iOS and Android store, you can find it under the name Microsoft Operations Management Suite) if you want to view the state of your workloads while you are on the way.
In this section, I'll only use the Azure Portal and PowerShell; the options in Azure CLI are very limited or sometimes even none existent.
