Application Insights is used to monitor custom applications; however, it is equally important to monitor the environment on which they are deployed and hosted. The environments can involve infrastructure components such as virtual machines, networks, storage accounts, any many other resources. Operational Insights will provide information about the overall health of the infrastructure in terms of its usage, availability, changes, security, and many other areas that can help an operations person to take both proactive and reactive actions on the environments.
Operational Insights, also known as Operations Management Suite (OMS) must be provisioned on Azure before it can be consumed to monitor the virtual machines. Again, similar to Application Insights, Operational Insights can be provisioned through Azure portal, PowerShell, REST API, or Resource Group Manager templates. For the purpose of this book, the Azure Resource Group Manager templates approach is used...