Azure Monitor documentation

Learn about monitoring Azure and on-premises services. Understand how to aggregate and analyze metrics, logs, and traces. Respond to issues by firing alerts that can send notifications or by calling automated solutions.

About Azure Monitor

Overview

• What is Azure Monitor?
• What can you monitor?
• How do you collect data?
• What is Azure Monitor Metrics?
• What is Azure Monitor Logs?

Common scenarios

How-To Guide

• Multi-cloud monitoring
• Monitor virtual machines
• Monitor containers
• Migrate from SCOM
• Migrate from Splunk to Azure Monitor Logs

Training

Training

• Azure Monitor fundamentals
• Analyze monitoring data with Kusto Query Language
• Monitor hybrid virtual machines, containers, and network resources

Get started with Azure Monitor

Get Started

• Plan your implementation
• Configure data collection
• Understand analysis and visualization tools
• Configure alerts and automated actions
• Optimize costs

Get started with Azure Monitor Logs

How-To Guide

• Set up a Log Analytics workspace
• Design a Log Analytics workspace architecture
• Manage tables in a Log Analytics workspace
• Monitor workspaces with Log Analytics Workspace Insights
• Analyze data in Log Analytics
• Get started with KQL log queries

Get started with Application Insights

How-To Guide

• Application Insights overview
• Create a resource
• Auto-instrumentation overview
• Application Dashboard
• Availability tests
• Application map

Visualize monitoring data

How-To Guide

• Insights and curated visualizations
• Workbooks
• Dashboards
• Power BI
• Grafana

Respond to issues

How-To Guide

• Alerts
• Autoscale

Reference

Reference

• CLI Reference
• PowerShell Reference
• REST API Reference Index