Monitoring with Azure Monitor and activity logs
Azure Monitor provides a single place in Azure that can be used to monitor most Azure resources and services. Using telemetry collected from a variety of sources, it provides insights into applications, virtual machines, storage accounts, containers, networks, and more. Virtual machines can be onboarded individually or at scale using Azure Policy. Azure Monitor can provide near-real-time monitoring, which is invaluable for setting up critical alerts and notifications. Through action groups, you can create custom actions that are triggered based on alerts. These actions include email, SMS, push, or voice notifications, custom webhooks, and triggering an Azure Automation runbook for advanced remediation. There are also solutions in Azure Monitor that are prepackaged with the necessary logic to query data and provide rich visualizations and custom dashboards. Dashboards with metrics can be created and shared out to the appropriate teams...