Episode

Azure Core IaaS Study Hall Ep06: Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts

with Pierre Roman, Amy Colyer, Jacques Guibert de Bruet

Evaluate monitoring options for an Azure virtual machine (VM). Enable diagnostics to get data about your VM. View VM metrics in Azure Metrics Explorer. Create a metric alert to monitor performance.

Learning objectives

  • Identify metrics and diagnostic data that you can collect for virtual machines
  • Configure monitoring for a virtual machine
  • Use monitoring data to diagnose problems

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 03:27 - Learning objectives
  • 05:33 - Example scenario
  • 06:55 - Azure Monitor
  • 12:46 - Monitor the health of the virtual machine
  • 13:47 - challenges in VM monitoring
  • 15:29 - Azure Monitor for VMs
  • 21:24 - Metrics
  • 25:16 - Boot diagnostics
  • 25:32 - Exercise - Set up a VM with boot diagnostics
  • 35:28 - View VM metrics
  • 40:03 - Share Azure dashboards
  • 41:06 - Exercise - Create a dashboard and VM metrics
  • 45:14 - Knowledge check
  • 50:05 - configure the Azure Diagnostics extension
  • 01:00:45 - Diagnostic data case studies
  • 01:14:35 - Exercise - Use diagnostic data
  • 01:17:04 - Summary and resources

Connect

Beginner
Administrator
Azure
Azure Monitor
Azure Virtual Machines