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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

By : Chiyo Odika
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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

By: Chiyo Odika

Overview of this book

Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook begins with an overview of how to hit the ground running with OMS insights and analytics. Next, you will learn to search and analyze data to retrieve actionable insights, review alert generation from the analyzed data, and use basic and advanced Log search queries in Azure Log Analytics. Following this, you will explore some other management solutions that provide functionality related to workload assessment, application dependency mapping, automation and configuration management, and security and compliance. You will also become well versed with the data protection and recovery functionalities of OMS Protection and Recovery, and learn how to use Azure Automation components and features in OMS. Finally you will learn how to evaluate key considerations for using the Security and Audit solution, and working with Security and Compliance in OMS. By the end of the book, you will be able to configure and utilize solution offerings in OMS, understand OMS workflows, how to unlock insights, integrate capabilities into new or existing workflows, manage configurations, and automate tasks and processes.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Linux data collection and metrics

Log Analytics can collect Linux operating system performance counters as well as counters for Linux applications such as MySQL and Apache HTTP server.

How to do it...

To configure performance counter data collection on connected Linux systems in your Log Analytics workspace:

  1. Log into the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
  2. In the Azure portal, type Log Analytics in the Search resources search field and under Services, select Log Analytics.
  1. Select your workspace from the list and, in the workspace blade, under Settings, click on Advanced settings.
  2. In the Advanced settings window, click on Data and then on Linux Performance Counters.
  3. Check the option to Apply below configuration to...