Facing issues while working with an application/VM that works on Azure because of Azure Storage would be painful. Therefore, to avoid such a scenario, you should monitor your environment properly, diagnose the issue, and troubleshoot it once it occurs. And there's the three musketeers that will save your day: monitoring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting.
To monitor your storage services, you have to navigate to your storage account and select its metrics to display the monitored metrics, as shown in the following screenshot:
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You can also add alerts, in case a metric exceeded a threshold set by you. To do so, you have to navigate to the storage account that you want to monitor, scroll down to Alert rules, and click on Add alert. A new blade will pop up, where you will need to fill in the...