Enabling monitoring

To enable monitoring while creating a VM, follow these steps: 

1. The two basic types of VM diagnostics and monitoring are boot diagnostics and OS guest diagnostics, which can be set during a VM's creation:

Figure 9.2 – Configuring VM monitoring settings

They give you the following features:

2. • The ability to understand what is happening when a machine is starting. Some updates or modifications may affect how your VM boots, so it is important to know that you can analyze what is happening and introduce proper adjustments.
   • Information about the status of the OSes that have been deployed to a machine.

2. The same can be set after a VM is provisioned. To do so, go to the Diagnostics settings blade and search for agent and boot diagnostic settings, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.3 – Diagnostics settings blade

3. Here, when you click on the Configure boot diagnostics/Configure agent link, you will gain access...