Introduction

  • 3 minutes

You are in IT Operations at Tailwind Traders. You're responsible for managing and monitoring a fleet of IaaS VMs deployed in Azure running a mixture of Windows Server and Linux operating systems. You want to ensure that the performance and applications of these virtual machines are tracked and visible in the Azure Portal.

Learning objectives

In this module, you learn how to:

  • Describe how the Azure Monitor Agent can be deployed to IaaS Virtual Machines.
  • Explain VM Insights and how to use it to monitor IaaS VM performance.
  • Enable data collection rules to collect operating system and application logs.

Prerequisites:

  • Understand the basic functionality of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics workspaces.