Reviewing Azure Stack Hub monitoring

Before we look at monitoring in Azure Stack Hub, let's look at the monitoring problem space.

First, understanding health is complex for Azure Stack Hub. A cloud architecture such as Azure Stack Hub depends on many different technologies. The health of the Azure Stack Hub cloud is not the sum of its parts. This means that we need to understand how alerts relate to health.

Second, we need to be able to decipher the alerts to understand which alerts need to have actions taken against them. We need to prioritize which alerts to tackle first and also need to understand the steps needed to resolve the alerts.

The philosophy of monitoring for Azure Stack Hub is to show the health of the platform through alerts. These alerts are managed by the health resource provider (HRP). You can consume these alerts to suit your own tools and processes. Azure Stack Hub manages and monitors all the software in the box. The OEM vendor provides the management...