Monitoring Azure Analysis Services (AAS) and PBIE
AAS and PBIE are first-party Azure services. This means they are provisioned, managed, and billed via Azure. You can leverage these services in a standalone manner, directly integrating them with custom applications or using them as independent data tiers that can be scaled on-demand as needed. We will primarily use Azure tooling to look at data from these services.
Azure metrics for AAS
After you have provisioned an AAS instance, you can use built-in metrics to visualize your load and operations. Simply navigate to the AAS instance in the Azure portal and select the metrics link from the left navigation. You can then select various metrics to plot in the web interface, as described in the documentation (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/analysis-services/analysis-services-monitor). Let’s highlight some of the more important metrics and how they can help you:
- Current User Sessions: The number of concurrent...
