Summary

  • 2 minutes

Azure Monitor helps you collect, analyze, and alert on various types of host and client monitoring data from your Azure VMs.

  • Azure Monitor provides a set of VM host logs and performance and usage metrics for all Azure VMs.
  • You can enable recommended alert rules when you create VMs or afterwards to alert on important VM host metrics.
  • Azure Monitor Metrics Explorer lets you graph and analyze metrics for Azure VMs and other resources.
  • VM insights provides a simple way to monitor important VM client performance counters and processes running on your VM.
  • You can create data collection rules to collect other metrics and logs from your VM client.
  • You can use Log Analytics to query and analyze log data.

Now that you understand these tools, you're confident that Azure Monitor can effectively monitor your Azure VMs and help you keep your website running effectively.

Clean up resources

In this module, you created a VM in your Azure subscription. To prevent further charges for this VM, you can delete it or the resource group that contains it.

To delete the resource group that contains the VM and its resources:

  1. Select the Resource group link at the top of the Essentials section on the VM's Overview page.
  2. At the top of the resource group page, select Delete resource group.
  3. On the delete screen, select the checkbox next to Apply force delete for selected virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets. Enter the resource group name in the field, and then select Delete.

Learn more

To learn more about monitoring your VMs with Azure Monitor, see the following resources: