Integrating with other tools
Azure Monitor and Application Insights are excellent tools for gathering application logs and metrics, as well as storing them and making them searchable. However, there could be reasons why development teams or businesses prefer to work with other tools to visualize application performance or respond to alerts. One important driver for integration is often the primary tool used by a person or team. If a team operates mainly in ServiceNow or Grafana, it is often useful to integrate these with Azure Monitor instead of forcing these teams to work with multiple tools.
Many possible integrations exist; some examples are detailed in the following subsections.
IT service management applications
Action groups were introduced in the previous section where we looked at instrumenting web applications. Action groups are groups of actions to be performed in response to an alert.
Next to the rich built-in capabilities, it is also possible to automatically...