Performance Monitoring

In Azure Monitor, there are many options available for monitoring. For instance, performance counters give you a lot of insight into your workload. There are also application-specific options.

Even if you don't use Azure Monitor, Azure can provide all kinds of metrics for each VM, but not in one central place. Just navigate to your VM. In the Overview pane, you can see performance data for CPU, memory, and storage. Detailed information is available in the Metrics section, under Monitoring. All kinds of data are available, such as CPU, storage, and networking data:

Figure 11.18: Viewing the performance data of the VM

The problem with many of these solutions is that they are application-specific, or you are looking at the end result without knowing what the cause is. If you need information about the general performance of the resources utilized by the virtual machine(s), use the information provided by Azure. If you need information...