Discovering Azure Workbooks
Azure workbooks are another great tool for reporting and monitoring in Azure. Let’s compare Azure workbooks with other monitoring tools and services, such as Azure dashboards and Power BI:
- Power BI is one of the reporting tools that can be used for monitoring. Power BI reports consume the telemetry data pulled from Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics through web APIs. Power BI reports can be printed and published on the server and can also be shared as part of a Power BI dashboard with users of the Azure Entra tenant and anonymous users.
- An Azure dashboard represents live activities and includes metrics and logs. The dashboard supports different types of tiles, including charts, images, videos, and text. Usually, a dashboard is a single-page view of the most important metrics of the application that automatically updates. Dashboards support KQL charts, Application Insights, and Azure Monitor metrics. They aren’t designed to be...
