Azure Monitor’s comprehensive monitoring capabilities, real-time insights, and integration with various Azure services make it a popular choice for organizations seeking to optimize the performance, availability, and health of their applications and resources within the Azure cloud environment.
Setting up Azure Monitor in the Azure cloud involves several steps so that you can start collecting and analyzing telemetry data from your resources. Here’s a general overview of the process:
- Access the Azure portal: Log in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) using your Azure account credentials.
- Create a Log Analytics workspace:
A. In the Azure portal, click on + Create a resource and search for Log Analytics Workspace.
B. Select the appropriate subscription, resource group, and region for your workspace.
C. Provide a unique name for the workspace, configure other settings as needed, and click Review + Create to create the workspace. - Enable monitoring for resources:
A. Once your Log Analytics workspace has been created, navigate to the resource you want to monitor (for example, an Azure VM or Azure SQL database).
B. Under the Monitoring section of the resource’s menu, select Enable to enable monitoring for that resource. - Configure data collection:
A. Depending on the resource, you must configure data collection settings. For example, for an Azure VM, you can configure performance counters, event logs, and diagnostics settings.
B. Choose which types of data you want to collect and analyze for the selected resource. - Configure alerts:
A. To set up alerts, navigate to the Alerts section in the Azure Monitor menu.
B. Create alert rules based on specific conditions, such as CPU usage exceeding a threshold, and define actions to be taken when the alert triggers (for example, sending an email notification). - Create dashboards:
A. Navigate to the Dashboards section in the Azure Monitor menu.
B. Create custom dashboards by adding tiles that display metrics, charts, and other visualizations from your monitored resources. - Configure Log Analytics queries:
A. In the Log Analytics workspace, you can create and run queries to analyze the data collected from your resources.
B. Use the Kusto Query Language (KQL) to write queries that help you gain insights into your data. - Visualize insights:
A. Use the insights gained from your monitoring and queries to identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize your resources’ performance. - Integrate with Azure DevOps:
A. You can integrate Azure Monitor with Azure DevOps to gain insights into application performance and align monitoring with your DevOps practices. - Explore additional features:
A. Azure Monitor offers features such as Application Insights for application performance monitoring and Azure Security Center for enhanced security insights.
Please note that the exact steps may vary, depending on the type of resource you are monitoring and the specific features you are utilizing within Azure Monitor.
