Azure Virtual Machine operation and monitoring

OPERATIONS and MONITORING give us more administration and managing options for our Azure Virtual Machines. In OPERATIONS, we have Auto-shutdown, Backup, Disaster recovery, Update management, Inventory, Change tracking, and the Run command. We will explain Auto-shutdown and the Run command now but the rest of these features require additional services that we'll cover later.

We have a similar situation with MONITORING , we'll cover Metrics and Alerts (classic) now and the rest of the services will be explained in the chapters to come.

The Auto-shutdown option enables you to schedule the shutdown of your VM in Azure. As I mentioned before, this option allow us to save money if we don't need the ...

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