Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is a comprehensive platform designed to collect data from your resources, analyze it, visualize the insights, and take actions based on the results. It is versatile enough to monitor Azure resources, on-premises environments, and even multi-cloud setups like virtual machines hosted by other cloud providers.

Data Collection and Usage

Azure Monitor gathers logging and metric data at every layer of your application architecture, from the application itself down to the operating system and network. This data is stored in central repositories, allowing you to view both real-time and historical performance data. You can visualize this data using high-level reports on the Azure Monitor Dashboard or create custom views with Power BI and Kusto queries.

The data can also trigger real-time alerts delivered via SMS, email, etc., or initiate autoscaling to meet demand thresholds.

Azure Log Analytics

Azure Log Analytics, accessed through the Azure portal, allows you to write and run queries on the data collected by Azure Monitor. It supports both simple and complex queries, making it a powerful tool for data analysis. You can sort, filter, and visualize query results to identify trends and insights. Additionally, Log Analytics can be used with other Azure Monitor features like log query alerts and workbooks for comprehensive monitoring and analysis.

Azure Monitor Alerts

Azure Monitor Alerts automate notifications when certain thresholds are crossed. You set alert conditions and notification actions, and Azure Monitor Alerts will notify you when these conditions are met. They can monitor logs or metrics, providing near real-time alerts based on numeric values or complex logic across multiple data sources.

Alerts use action groups to define who gets notified and what actions to take. These action groups can be shared across Azure Monitor, Service Health, and Azure Advisor alerts.

Application Insights

Application Insights, a…