This presentation is a summary of my blog series "Azure Monitoring Tools Explained" which can be found on my blog here: https://adinermie.com/azure-monitoring-tools-explained-part-1-introduction/ There is also a YouTube recording of the presentation, which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGJqjRlBc0M

1. AZURE MONITORING
WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS AND HOW DO I USE
THEM?

2. WHO AM I?
ADIN ERMIE
• Manager, Infrastructure Consulting – Cloud @ Avanade
• Cloud Solutions Architect (Datacenter/Azure)
• Azure (IaaS, PaaS, Recovery Services)
• Operations Management Suite (OMS), Azure Monitor,
Azure Security Center (ASC)
• 3x MVP - Cloud and Datacenter Management (CDM)
• Email: Adin.Ermie@outlook.com
• Twitter: @AdinErmie
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adinermie
• Blog: http://AdinErmie.com

3. WHAT WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
Why so many options?
An interesting story
Azure Monitoring
Scenarios
Azure Monitoring &
Analytics
Demos
Review / Q&A
Useful Links

4. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OPTIONS?

5. AN
INTERESTING
STORY
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/monitoring-and-
diagnostics/monitoring-overview
https://adinermie.com/azure-monitoring-
tools-explained-part-1-introduction/

6. AZURE MONITORING SCENARIOS
Applications
Services
Infrastructure
Web Apps
App
Services
API Services
SQL,
HDInsight,
Service
Fabric,
Functions,
IIS,
Containers,
etc.
Compute
Storage
Network
Availability & App
Health
End User Experience
Performance &
Diagnostics
User Insights & KPIs
Root Cause Analyses
App Insights for App
Monitoring, Diagnostics &
Analytics
Resource Availability
Basic service metrics
Service usage spikes
Troubleshoot queries
App Insights for
Functions, Log
Analytics for
Diagnostics
Server availability
Noisy neighbor
Network performance
Health of core system
metrics
Log Analytics for
Diagnostics
Service Map for Process
Mapping
NPM for Network
Monitoring

7. AZURE MONITORING & ANALYTICS
Deep Application Monitoring Deep Infrastructure Monitoring
Application Insights
Log Analytics Container
Monitoring
Service Map SQL Analytics
Network Monitoring Security Center
Core Monitoring
Azure Monitor Azure Advisor Service Health Activity Log
Shared Capabilities
Dashboards Metrics Explorer Alerts & Notifications w/ITSM Connector

8. DEMOS

9. REVIEW /
Q&A
• There are LOTS of options
• Start getting into the habit of using Azure Monitor as
your first point for all monitoring toolsets
• Even if you are familiar and comfortable with the “classic”
Operations Management Suite (OMS) portal, start shifting
to the new Azure portal experiences
• Deep-dive into the new Log Analytics query language,
and the additional power and insights we gain from it
• Although the Operations Management Suite (OMS) has
several security solutions, start using Azure Security
Center (ASC) as your first point for all security toolsets
• Keep a close eye on Network Watcher, as just like OMS-
to-Azure Monitor and OMS-to-Azure Security Center, it
will become another important starting point for all
network-related toolsets

10. USEFUL
LINKS
• Azure Resource Health:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-
health/resource-health-overview
• SCOM vs OMS Log Analytics:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/operations-management-
suite/operations-management-suite-monitoring-
product-comparison
• Use Azure Monitor for host-level monitoring:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/monitoring-and-
diagnostics/monitoring-overview-metrics
• Unified Alerts: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/monitoring-and-
diagnostics/monitoring-overview-unified-alerts
• Near Real Time Metric Alerts:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/monitoring-and-

11. THANK YOU
• Email: Adin.Ermie@outlook.com
• Twitter: @AdinErmie
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adinermie
• Blog: http://AdinErmie.com