Azure Cloud Monitoring Solutions

Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution for collecting, analyzing, and responding to telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. You can use Azure Monitor to maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services.

Azure Monitor collects and aggregates the data from every layer and component of your system into a common data platform. It correlates data across multiple Azure subscriptions and tenants, in addition to hosting data for other services. Because this data is stored together, it can be correlated and analyzed using a common set of tools. The data can then be used for analysis and visualizations to help you understand how your applications are performing and respond automatically to system events.

Use Azure Monitor to monitor these types of resources in Azure, other clouds, or on-premises:

• Applications
• Virtual machines
• Guest operating systems
• Containers including Prometheus metrics
• Databases
• Security events in combination with Azure Sentinel
• Networking events and health in combination with Network Watcher
• Custom sources that use the APIs to get data into Azure Monitor

You can also export monitoring data from Azure Monitor into other systems so you can:

• Integrate with other third-party and open-source monitoring and visualization tools
• Integrate with ticketing and other ITSM systems

High level architecture

The diagram depicts the Azure Monitor system components:

• The?data sources?are the types of data collected from each monitored resource. The data is collected and routed to the?data platform.
• The?data platform?is made up of the data stores for collected data. Azure Monitor's data platform has stores for metrics, logs, traces, and changes.
• The functions and components that consume data include analysis, visualizations, insights, and responses.
• Services that integrate with Azure Monitor and provide additional functionality are marked with an asterisk * in the diagram.