With guest-level monitoring enabled, you can collect additional data and send it to destinations other than Azure. To enable this feature, go to the Diagnostics settings blade and click Enable guest-level monitoring:
Figure 6.8 – Diagnostic settings blade before enabling it
Now, if you go to your deployed VM in the Azure portal, you will see that the very first monitoring feature of a VM is available immediately when you go to its Overview section:
Figure 6.9 – View of a machine's workload
As you can see, this gives you an immediate insight into parameters such as CPU, network, and disk utilization. By using the pin icon next to each chart, you can attach it to your main dashboard inside the Azure portal.
