Tooling for the DMOC
There are multiple ways of building monitoring dashboards in Azure. In this section, we will discuss the most popular combinations. Let us begin by summarizing the list of available tools.
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is one of the core services of Azure that collects, monitors, and helps analyze the metrics and logs from the cloud and on-premises services and resources. It’s the core building block for any infrastructure monitoring need. It also helps you set alerts to respond to the metrics exceeding certain levels. Alerts can send messages and emails. They can also trigger runbooks to implement any autoscaling or maintenance jobs to automate escalation to the solution.
Log Analytics
As we saw in Baking diagnostic logging into the landing zone templates, Log Analytics is part of the Azure Monitor service. It is a tool that allows you to run queries against the logs collected by Azure Monitor. It uses Kusto query language (KQL) to query the logs...