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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

By : Alexander Meijers
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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

By: Alexander Meijers

Overview of this book

In today’s world, clients are using more and more IoT sensors to monitor their business processes and assets. Think about collecting information such as pressure in an engine, the temperature, or a light switch being turned on or off in a room. The data collected can be used to create smart solutions for predicting future trends, creating simulations, and drawing insights using visualizations. This makes it beneficial for organizations to make digital twins, which are digital replicas of the real environment, to support these smart solutions. This book will help you understand the concept of digital twins and how it can be implemented using an Azure service called Azure Digital Twins. Starting with the requirements and installation of the Azure Digital Twins service, the book will explain the definition language used for modeling digital twins. From there, you'll go through each step of building digital twins using Azure Digital Twins and learn about the different SDKs and APIs and how to use them with several Azure services. Finally, you'll learn how digital twins can be used in practice with the help of several real-world scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll be confident in building and designing digital twins and integrating them with various Azure services.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Azure Digital Twin Essentials
4
Section 2: Getting Started with Azure Digital Twins
11
Section 3: Digital Twins Advanced Techniques
19
Section 4: Digital Twin Implementations in Real-world Scenarios

Chapter 15: Monitoring and Troubleshooting

In this chapter, we will learn everything you need to know to monitor your Azure Digital Twins service using the Azure Log Analytics workspace and the diagnostic settings. Log Analytics, metrics, and alerts are tools provided in the Microsoft Azure platform to support monitoring, logging, and solving problems.

It allows us to monitor and troubleshoot problems that occur around the Azure Digital Twins instance by identifying logs and metrics. We can create alerts that can help us to take action upon those logs and metrics to inform or warn administrators and to resolve issues around the Azure Digital Twins instance and related services used by our solution.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Setting up a log analytics workspace
  • Setting up diagnostic settings
  • Viewing logs
  • Viewing metrics
  • Using alerts

After this chapter, we will understand how we can monitor and troubleshoot our Azure...