Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about a variety of monitoring tools available in Azure. You played around with Azure Monitor and were able to retrieve performance counters for your application, such as request rate, CPU usage, and failed requests. You learned about different options for persisting and analyzing logs by using Azure Blob Storage and Log Analytics workspaces. You also learned about Application Insights – the most powerful tool for monitoring and troubleshooting applications running on Azure platforms or on-premises. You got familiar with a variety of useful charts provided by Application Insights to monitor and detect bottlenecks in performance, investigate crashes, and collect dependency metrics of the solution’s components. You also learned how to instrument the code to collect custom metrics and custom events, and handled exceptions. We introduced essential skills of root cause analysis by using custom KQL queries and custom charts. You learned...