Azure Monitor

What problem does it solve?

Azure Monitor consolidates telemetry from Azure resources, enabling operators to observe, diagnose, and optimize production workloads across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Unified telemetry guidance: configurations for metrics, logs, and traces, plus dashboards to monitor resources holistically.
• Incident triage and remediation: step-by-step guidance for detecting issues, performing root-cause analysis, and coordinating rapid responses with diagnostic settings and alerts.
• Performance optimization and cost control: instrumentation strategies, OpenTelemetry integration, application maps, and smart detection for reliability and cost efficiency.

Quick Start

Configure a baseline telemetry view by enabling AMA, Application Insights, and a diagnostic setting on a sample resource, then verify data flow with a simple KQL query.