Describe Azure Monitor key capabilities
Azure Monitor provides you with a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and responding to telemetry data from your on-premises and cloud environments. The service features help you understand how your applications are performing. You can use Azure Monitor to proactively identify issues that affect your apps and resources, and take action to maximize their availability and performance.
Things to know about Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor provides features and capabilities in three areas:
Monitor and visualize metrics: Azure Monitor gathers numerical metric values from your Azure resources according to your preferences. Azure Monitor offers different methods for viewing your metric data to help you understand the health, operation, and performance of your system.
Query and analyze logs: Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) generates activity logs, diagnostic logs, and telemetry information from your monitoring solutions. The service provides analytics queries that you can use to help with troubleshooting and visualizations of your log data.
Set up alerts and actions: Azure Monitor lets you set up alerts for your gathered data to notify you when critical conditions arise. You can configure actions based on the alert conditions, and take automated corrective steps based on triggers from your metrics or logs.