The Microsoft Azure cloud is constantly evolving and it was time for us to refresh our Introduction to IaaS course in Azure. This is done with a complete update of the content in the monitoring and log analysis services .
How to monitor everything that is happening in your cloud (s)? Azure Monitor, Azure Logs Analytics and its various log processing packs.
To complete this and go further on the topics, some additional resources:
Azure status
http://status.azure.com
Announcing Azure Advisor, Monitor, and resource health general availability
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-advisor-azure-monitor-and-resource-health/
Azure Monitor Documentation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/monitoring-get-started/
Monitor Azure services and applications with Grafana
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/monitor-azure-services-and-applications-using-grafana/
https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana- azure-monitor-datasource
Microsoft Operations Management + Security
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/operations-management-suite/operations-management-suite-overview
Azure Logs Analytics Overview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-overview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tracking-configuration-changes-for-your-azure-vm/
OMS demo platform ready to use
http://experience.mms.microsoft.com/
Creation of a Main Service via the portal
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-create-service-principal-portal
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