Chapter 5. Managing and Monitoring Virtual Machines

So far, we have created some virtual machines in Azure, and we have looked at both Linux and Windows-based virtual machines. We have connected our machines via a virtual network. That's it, over to Microsoft now to look after them for us! Well, not quite. With infrastructure as a service, you will still need to monitor your servers to ensure both availability and performance. This is especially true if you build a hybrid environment that spans your on-premises infrastructure in the cloud. In this chapter, we will take a look at how we can set up monitoring in our Azure-based virtual machines.

In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:

• Monitoring Cloud Services using the Azure portal
• Configuring monitoring for Cloud Services
• Alerting for Cloud Services
• Adding metrics to the metrics table
• Other monitoring tools