Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. This information helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.
Just a few examples of what you can do with Azure Monitor include:
Overview
The following diagram gives a high-level view of Azure Monitor. At the center of the diagram are the data stores for metrics and logs, which are the two fundamental types of data used by Azure Monitor. On the left are the sources of monitoring data that populate these data stores. On the right are the different functions that Azure Monitor performs with this collected data. This includes such actions as analysis, alerting, and streaming to external systems.
Azure Monitor overview Article 11/09/2021 8 minutes to read 22 contributors
Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. This information helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.
Just a few examples of what you can do with Azure Monitor include:
Detect and diagnose issues across applications and dependencies with Application Insights. Correlate infrastructure issues with VM insights and Container insights. Drill into your monitoring data with Log Analytics for troubleshooting and deep diagnostics. Support operations at scale with smart alerts and automated actions. Create visualizations with Azure dashboards and workbooks. Collect data from monitored resources using Azure Monitor Metrics.
Overview The following diagram gives a high-level view of Azure Monitor. At the center of the diagram are the data stores for metrics and logs, which are the two fundamental types of data used by Azure Monitor. On the left are the sources of monitoring data that populate these data stores. On the right are the different functions that Azure Monitor performs with this collected data. This includes such actions as analysis, alerting, and streaming to external systems.