which is best method for moniotroing virtual machines and other components in azure

Question

I know there is log analytic work space, diagnostic settings and then data collection rule

all these 3 methods for monitoring purpose, but which we should choose exactly to monitor virtual machine and other component health at the subscription level and resource group level?

Answer 1

Hi @Varma , I understand you are asking about what you need to monitor Azure VM and other Azure services health.

There are 2 alerts that you can set:

1. Resource health provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources, such as a specific virtual machine instance.
2. Service health offers a personalized view of the health of the Azure services and regions you use, providing service-impacting communications about outages, planned maintenance, and health advisories. By setting up Service Health alerts, you can receive notifications through your preferred communication channels about issues or changes that might affect your Azure resources.

Using Azure Monitor, you can configure alerts to notify you of the availability changes to your cloud resources. The notifications and tailored alerts you receive tell you about issues affecting your specific resources, ensuring they're promptly informed about any disruptions.
Reference: Alerts for Azure Service Health and Azure Resource Health

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