Azure Monitor is a combined monitoring solution provided by Microsoft Azure. It collects, analyze and acts on metric data collected from both cloud and on-premises. It is designed to provide full-stack monitoring capabilities for applications, infrastructure, and network.
Overview
Data Collection: Azure Monitor collects data from every resource it is attached to. Either purely Azure, on-premises or other cloud environments. This data includes metrics, logs and traces which provide insights into health and performance of your applications and services.
Data Analysis: These collected metrics and logs provide a very strong baseline for Log Analytics and Application Insights to analyse your data using complex queries and even AI models. Using these you can also visualize your data and create dashboards for a seamless analysis.
Proactive Response: It would all be useless if all these data collection and analysis could not be turned into an action. Azure Monitor provides proactive response through notifications, runbooks and integrations with other system to address any issues before they impact your applications and services.
Benefits
Visibility: Azure Monitor provides detailed and unified visibility for cloud resources. Companies can monitor their applications, services and infrastructure and gain important insights into the performance of them.
Performance: Azure monitor helps identifying any bottlenecks and optimize your resources by continuously monitoring metrics and logs. This ensures that your applications run smoothly and user expectations are fulfilled.
Scalibility: With the assistance of data collected by Azure Monitor, companies can easily make decisions on scalability needs of their applications and resources. While increasing trends will be leading to scaling up, decreasing patterns will lead them to scale down and ensure optimal performance while managing costs.
Security and Compliance: Continuously monitoring applications, infrastructure, and data and features offed by Microsoft Sentinel, it becomes easier to detect any suspicious activities and security risks and protect environments from potential breaches. Besides, monitoring also enables to demonstrate compliance with regulations presenting the evidence it requires.
Cost Management: By analysing utilization and performance data of resources, Azure Monitor helps optimize cloud costs and helps identify over or underutilized resources to help scale up or down or even decommission.
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