Summary
In this chapter, we began Section 5, Operations and Monitoring, by looking at the options available for building robust monitoring and logging solutions.
Azure provides basic capturing of metrics and logs from the platform and its components, including built-in tools for visualizing and exploring them. For more advanced scenarios, we looked at additional options for sending these logs and metrics to other locations, such as storage accounts, Log Analytics workspaces, and event hubs.
We looked at how to also hook into and capture VM operating system logs, and then how we can use tools such as Log Analytics to query across multiple data sources.
We then examined how to use Security Center, Defender, and Sentinel to provide proactive threat detection and remediation, and how each product can work together to enable automation and alerting.
Finally, we looked at the tools available for reporting on and monitoring costs.
In the next chapter, we continue our operations theme...