Azure Monitor

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Azure Monitor offers visualization, query, routing, alerting, autoscale, and automation on data both from the Azure infrastructure (Activity Log) and each individual Azure resource (Diagnostic Logs).

Getting Started

Getting Started Azure Monitor

2/10/2017, Video, 0:05:13

For a Guide to a Modern IT Environment, click: http://aka.ms/GuideModernIT. In this quick, 5-minute video we introduce Azure's new platform service for monitoring your...
Pluralsight: Microsoft Azure IaaS Monitoring and Management - Getting Started

3/30/2017, Mva

In this course, Microsoft Azure IaaS Monitoring and Management - Getting Started, you'll learn the skills you need to keep your proverbial finger on the pulse of your...
Azure Platform Monitoring Overview

10/5/2016, Video, 0:42:00

For a Guide to a Modern IT Environment, click: http://aka.ms/GuideModernIT. See an overview of Azure monitoring and the various facilities it offers ranging from metrics,...
An overview of Azure Monitor

3/31/2017, Video, 0:04:27

Lead Azure engineer, Ashwin Kamath provides an overview of Azure Monitor, just released to GA, which gives you built-in platform monitoring for all-up visibility into the...
Explore Microsoft Azure monitoring and diagnostics

9/28/2016, Video, 1:08:06

Learn about the core capabilities of Microsoft Azure Monitoring applicable to all Azure resources. Learn about the new capabilities of Azure monitoring in the Portal, ranging...

Latest Content

Date	Title
8/16/2018	8/16/2018 Monitor Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite (OMS) Azure Friday [0:07:16] Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Data Factory (ADF) integration with Azure Monitor, which enables you to route your data factory metrics to Operations and Management Suite...
8/1/2018	8/1/2018 Using Azure Monitor to send an Email Notification for Azure Security Center Alerts Azure Security Center allows you to provide a security contact that will receive email notifications for Security Alerts, keep in mind that these notification will be sent only on the first daily...
7/30/2018	7/30/2018 Azure Monitor: Route AAD Activity Logs using diagnostic settings Microsoft Azure Blog Today in partnership with the Azure Active Directory (AAD) team we are excited to announce the public preview of AAD Activity Logs using Azure Monitor diagnostic settings. Azure Monitor diagnostic…
7/17/2018	7/17/2018 Azure Monitor: Route AAD Activity Logs using diagnostic settings Microsoft Azure Blog Today in partnership with the Azure Active Directory team we are excited to announce the public preview of AAD Activity Logs using Azure Monitor diagnostic settings. Azure Monitor diagnostic settings…
7/16/2018	7/16/2018 What’s new in Azure Monitor—container health Service Updates New feature updates to have been released for Azure Monitor container health for Azure Kubernetes Service since the successful public preview launch at the //build conference.
7/5/2018	7/5/2018 Unified alerts in Azure Monitor Azure Friday [0:09:38] Kiran Madnani chats with Scott Hanselman about Azure Monitor, where you can set up alerts to monitor the metrics and log data for the entire stack across your infrastructure, application, and...
6/26/2018	6/26/2018 Managing costs with the Azure Budgets API and Action Groups Azure Friday [0:12:52] Vinod Kurpad joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how Azure Cost Management APIs provide critical cost management features like budgets and data APIs to enable granular analysis of your cloud spending....
6/13/2018	6/13/2018 Exciting advances in Azure Alerts – From better alert management to Smart Groups Microsoft Azure Blog Today we are excited to announce preview of three new features in Azure Monitor that let you enumerate alerts at scale across log, metric or activity log alerts, filter alerts across subscriptions,…
6/4/2018	6/4/2018 Use Azure Monitor to integrate with SIEM tools Microsoft Azure Blog Over the past two years since introducing Azure Monitor, we’ve made significant strides in terms of consolidating on a single logging pipeline for all Azure services. A majority of the top Azure...
5/22/2018	5/22/2018 General availability: Log alerts for Application Insights Service Updates Log alerts for Application Insights are generally available as part of Azure Monitor.
5/12/2018	5/12/2018 At Build 2018: Monitoring and Application Insights Azure Friday [0:09:06] Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure Monitoring and Application Insights from...
5/9/2018	5/9/2018 Smart Insights with Machine Learning from Azure Monitoring [0:20:55] In today’s world of multi-layered applications generating a huge amount of telemetry data, getting Insights that will significantly shorten your Root Cause Analysis of an Incident, or even...

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Azure Monitor Documentation

1. Overview
     1.1. Monitoring in Azure
2. Quickstarts
     2.1. Alert (classic) on metric condition
     2.2. Alert on subscription activity
3. Tutorials
     3.1. Autoscale on performance and schedule
     3.2. Archive monitoring data
4. Concepts
     4.1. Sources of monitoring data
     4.2. Azure Monitor
     4.3. Agents
     4.4. Metrics
     4.5. Autoscale
     4.6. Diagnostic logs
     4.7. Activity log
     4.8. Alerts
     4.9. Alerts (classic)
     4.10. Log alerts
     4.11. Activity log alerts (Preview)
     4.12. Extend alerts from Log Analytics to Azure
     4.13. Action groups
     4.14. Azure Diagnostics Extension
     4.15. Roles permissions and security
     4.16. Partner integrations
5. How-to guides
     5.1. Walkthrough of Azure Monitor
     5.2. Create metrics charts in Metrics Explorer
     5.3. Use alerts
          5.3.1. Configure new metric or log alerts in Azure portal
          5.3.2. Configure classic alerts in Azure portal
          5.3.3. Configure classic alerts with CLI
          5.3.4. Configure classic alerts with Azure PowerShell
          5.3.5. Have a classic metric alert call a webhook
          5.3.6. Webhook actions for log alerts
          5.3.7. Create a log alert with a Resource Manager template
          5.3.8. Create a newer metric alert with a Resource Manager template
          5.3.9. Create a classic metric alert with a Resource Manager template
          5.3.10. Copy alerts from OMS portal to Azure portal
          5.3.11. Alerts with dynamic thresholds
     5.4. Use action groups with alerts
          5.4.1. Learn about the webhook schema
          5.4.2. SMS alert behavior
          5.4.3. Alert rate limiting
          5.4.4. Create action groups with Resource Manager
          5.4.5. Implement a Logic App action
     5.5. Use diagnostic logs
          5.5.1. Archive
          5.5.2. Send to Log Analytics
          5.5.3. Stream to Event Hubs
          5.5.4. Enable diagnostic settings with Resource Manager templates
          5.5.5. Prepare for JSON Lines diagnostic logs format
     5.6. Use activity log
          5.6.1. View events in activity log
          5.6.2. Configure alerts on an activity log event
          5.6.3. Archive activity log
          5.6.4. Stream activity log to Event Hubs
          5.6.5. Audit operations with Resource Manager
          5.6.6. Create activity log alerts with Resource Manager
          5.6.7. Migrate to activity log alerts
     5.7. Use service notifications
          5.7.1. View service notifications
          5.7.2. Configure alerts on service notifications
     5.8. Programmatic access
          5.8.1. Walkthrough using REST API
          5.8.2. Azure PowerShell samples
          5.8.3. Azure CLI samples
     5.9. Use Azure Diagnostics extension
          5.9.1. Send to Azure Storage
          5.9.2. Send to Application Insights
          5.9.3. Send to Event Hubs
          5.9.4. Troubleshooting
     5.10. Use autoscale
          5.10.1. Walkthrough of autoscale
          5.10.2. Understand Autoscale settings
          5.10.3. Best practices
          5.10.4. Common metrics
          5.10.5. Common patterns
          5.10.6. Autoscale using a custom metric
          5.10.7. Autoscale VM scale sets using Resource Manager templates
          5.10.8. Automatically scale machines in a VM scale set
          5.10.9. Configure webhooks and email notifications on autoscale
     5.11. Route to other locations
          5.11.1. Send metrics to Grafana
          5.11.2. Send monitoring data to an event hub
6. Reference
     6.1. Azure CLI
     6.2. Azure PowerShell
     6.3. REST
     6.4. Supported metrics
     6.5. Supported metrics for newer alerts
     6.6. Diagnostic logs services, categories, and schemas
     6.7. Activity log event schema
     6.8. Azure Diagnostics extension schema
          6.8.1. 1.3 and later
          6.8.2. 1.2
          6.8.3. 1.0
7. Resources
     7.1. Azure Roadmap
     7.2. Pricing calculator
     7.3. Regional availability
     7.4. Videos
     7.5. Quickstart templates
     7.6. Stack Overflow
     7.7. Code samples
     7.8. Usage and estimated costs

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Online Training Content

Date	Title
3/30/2017	Pluralsight: Microsoft Azure IaaS Monitoring and Management - Getting Started In this course, Microsoft Azure IaaS Monitoring and Management - Getting Started, you'll learn the skills you need to keep your proverbial finger on the pulse of your Microsoft Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services. First, you'll discover how to use Azure Monitor to perform basic monitoring. Next, you'll explore how to install and configure...

Date

Title

3/30/2017

Pluralsight: Microsoft Azure IaaS Monitoring and Management - Getting Started

In this course, Microsoft Azure IaaS Monitoring and Management - Getting Started, you'll learn the skills you need to keep your proverbial finger on the pulse of your Microsoft Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services. First, you'll discover how to use Azure Monitor to perform basic monitoring. Next, you'll explore how to install and configure...

Tools

Tool	Description	Author

Videos

Date	Title	Length
8/16/2018	Monitor Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite (OMS) Azure Friday Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Data Factory (ADF) integration with Azure Monitor, which enables you to route your data factory metrics to Operations and Management Suite (OMS). Get the Azure Data Factory...	0:07:16
7/5/2018	Unified alerts in Azure Monitor Azure Friday Kiran Madnani chats with Scott Hanselman about Azure Monitor, where you can set up alerts to monitor the metrics and log data for the entire stack across your infrastructure, application, and Azure platform. Learn about the next...	0:09:38
6/26/2018	Managing costs with the Azure Budgets API and Action Groups Azure Friday Vinod Kurpad joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how Azure Cost Management APIs provide critical cost management features like budgets and data APIs to enable granular analysis of your cloud spending. In this episode, you'll see how to...	0:12:52
5/12/2018	At Build 2018: Monitoring and Application Insights Azure Friday Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure Monitoring and Application Insights from Shankar Sivadasan.For more information,...	0:09:06
5/9/2018	Smart Insights with Machine Learning from Azure Monitoring In today’s world of multi-layered applications generating a huge amount of telemetry data, getting Insights that will significantly shorten your Root Cause Analysis of an Incident, or even prevent it is a challenging task. In this...	0:20:55
5/9/2018	Friction Free Onboarding with Azure Monitor to Enable Monitoring Your Apps and Infrastructure In this video we'll show you how to rapidly onboard to Azure Monitor to get setup with telemetry across your applications and infrastructure which is then available to the most popular monitoring tools that you might be using. For more...	0:13:06
5/6/2018	Continuous Monitoring for DevOps with Azure Application Insights & Log Analytics Continuous monitoring through your entire DevOps life cycle can lead to better collaboration between Dev and Ops and help you optimize the user experience every step of the way, leaving more time for your next big innovation. Find out...	1:23:29
5/6/2018	Secure and manage your Azure resources In Azure, Security & Management are a joint responsibility between Microsoft and our customers. Microsoft recommends that every production virtual machine and application is secure and well managed with security, backup and monitoring...	1:33:22
4/25/2018	How to use Azure Monitor for Azure Government YT: Microsoft Azure In this episode of the Azure Government videos series, we explore Azure Monitor on Azure Government. What is Azure Monitor? What are its main features and capabilities? What sources are relevant? We answers all these questions and more...	0:16:47
4/18/2018	Azure DDoS Protection Standard Overview YT: Microsoft Azure For the Azure DDoS Protection Standard text guide: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AqgwhV1oy1GxoVIoQzSQ9AvASjsY Azure DDoS Protection Standard provides advanced DDos mitigation capabilities for your applications when enabled on a VNet. The...	0:02:15

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