Azure Monitor is a monitoring solution in the Azure portal that provides infrastructure metrics and logs for most services in Microsoft Azure. Not all Azure resources have been added to Azure Monitor at the time of writing this book, but in the future, more will be added.
Azure Monitor offers the following capabilities:
- Activity log: The activity log provides information about every type of event that occurs inside an Azure subscription. These can be activities such as stopping or starting VMs and maintenance activities. It offers different event categories, such as administrative, security, service health, autoscale, alerts, recommendations, policies, and resource health events. The events are stored for a retention period of 90 days. Queries can be saved and pinned to the Azure dashboard, and they can be exported to a storage account so that you can...