Azure Monitor and Alerts
After covering Azure Policy in the previous chapter, it’s time to see how we can monitor services in Azure and alert people who are responsible for infrastructure if something goes wrong. While it’s possible to deploy a custom solution for monitoring using third-party services and hosting them using Azure Virtual Machines, using a native service has the advantage of being suited for a particular environment. In our case, that native service will be Azure Monitor.
Components, which we’re going to cover in this chapter, will help you build an initial setup for monitoring your infrastructure and lay the foundation for more advanced topics, such as alerting and auditing. Some of the concepts we’ll describe (such as diagnostic settings) are also connected to Azure Policy, which we discussed in the previous chapter.
In this chapter, we’ll cover a couple of different topics:
- An overview of Azure Monitor
- Understanding...
