Diagnostic settings You can also configure diagnostic settings on different Azure resources. There are two types of diagnostic logs available in Azure Monitor: The contents of these logs are different for every Azure resource. These logs differ from guest OS-level diagnostic logs. To collect OS-level logs, an agent needs to be installed on the virtual […]
Creating and analyzing metrics and alerts – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor
Creating and analyzing metrics and alerts There are several ways to consume and analyze alerts and metrics across Azure Monitor. You can consume this directly from the Monitor service as well as from the associated resource blade. In the upcoming sections, we will set up metrics and alerts and show you how to analyze them. […]
Creating a dashboard – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor
Creating a dashboard Azure provides the capability of building dashboards and allows you to build some quick insights for your resources: Figure 20.14 – Monitor – Pin to dashboard 2. Since we have not created a dashboard as yet, we will create a new one when saving. Click Create new, enter the following details, and […]
Creating an alert – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor
Creating an alert To create an alert, perform the following steps: Figure 20.22 – Creating an alert Figure 20.23 – Select a resource for alerts Figure 20.24 – Alert logic Figure 20.25 – The action group notification type Figure 20.26 – Testing your action group We have now created an alert and an action group […]
Configuring diagnostic settings on resources – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor
Configuring diagnostic settings on resources To enable the diagnostic settings for resources, perform the following steps: Now that you have configured diagnostic settings, we will explore triggering an alert from your VM to see how this works. Triggering an alert In this exercise, we will explore a method to push the CPU usage up high […]
Querying Log Analytics – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor
Querying Log Analytics It can be useful to explore your logs in Log Analytics. Being able to query Log Analytics requires an understanding of Kusto Query Language (KQL). We will explore some basic queries in this exercise to understand how the system works. Creating a Log Analytics workspace Before we can display, monitor, and query […]
Querying logs in Azure Monitor – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor
Querying logs in Azure Monitor To query logs in Azure Monitor, perform the following steps: Figure 20.33 – The Log Analytics workspace – query Figure 20.34 – The Log Analytics workspace – data source collections Figure 20.35 – The Log Analytics workspace – an example query Figure 20.36 – The Log Analytics workspace – column […]
Configuring Application Insights – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor
Configuring Application Insights We will now deploy Application Insights. In this exercise, we will create a new web application service that we can associate with the Applications Insights resource and see the incoming data. Creating your application We will now deploy an application for monitoring; this application will be built from a GitHub repository and […]