Unified Observability for Your Azure Resources
Azure Monitor is a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues affecting them.
Leverage powerful dashboards, intelligent alerts, and advanced analytics to ensure the health, availability, and performance of your critical systems.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Telemetry Collection: Collect logs and metrics from all your Azure services, operating systems, custom applications, and containers.
- Performance Monitoring: Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization.
- Availability & Health Checks: Monitor the uptime and responsiveness of your services with configurable health probes.
- Intelligent Alerting: Set up rich alerts based on metric thresholds, log queries, or activity logs to be notified of critical events.
- Diagnostic Logs: Dive deep into the operational details of your Azure resources with detailed diagnostic logs.
- Application Insights: Gain deep insights into application usage, performance, and errors with our integrated Application Insights service.
- Workbooks: Create rich, interactive visual reports for your data using Azure Workbooks.
- Cost Management Integration: Monitor and optimize your Azure spending by correlating resource performance with cost.
Core Components
Metrics
Quantitative measurements that describe the state of a system at a particular point in time. Ideal for performance and resource monitoring.
Logs
Records of events and diagnostic information from your Azure resources. Powerful for troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
Application Insights
An extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms.
Alerts
Proactively notify yourself and stakeholders about critical conditions in your environment.
Workbooks
Interactive reporting and data exploration experience for Azure Monitor data.
Get Started with Azure Monitor
Monitoring your Azure resources is straightforward. You can start by exploring the default metrics and logs available for your subscriptions and resources. For deeper insights, consider integrating Application Insights with your applications or setting up custom alerts.
Explore Resources
View built-in dashboards for your VMs, App Services, and more.
Set Up Alerts
Configure notifications for critical performance or availability issues.
App Insights SDK
Integrate Application Insights into your .NET, Java, Node.js apps.