Collecting performance counters for Azure

In Chapter 4, Identifying and Remediating Windows Server Security Issues Using Azure Services, in the Establishing a Data Collection Rule for the Azure Monitor Agent section, we learned that Data Collector Rules are a prerequisite for sending any alerts to Microsoft Azure for event collection, monitoring, troubleshooting, and alerting. We highly recommend that you review this chapter and section to refamiliarize yourself with the overall setup and architecture before proceeding to the Deploying Azure Monitor Agents section of Chapter 18.

For additional details on collecting data for use with Azure Monitor Agent, be sure to check out this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/agents/data-collection-rule-azure-monitor-agent.

Now that we have reviewed how Data Collector Rules contribute to how performance counters and event log information can be collected for Microsoft Azure, let’s learn how to create Azure Monitor...