Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)
by Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, Daniel Fernandez
Azure Diagnostics
Azure offers a free basic monitoring and diagnostics framework that collects data from all kinds of components and services on a virtual machine called Azure Diagnostics. Azure Diagnostics is really more like a log data collector than a complete solution, as it does not offer any user interface to view the data. Some monitoring solutions and tools use the data collected from Azure Diagnostics to provide log analysis and alerting and other features.
To get started with Azure Diagnostics, we only need to install the Azure Diagnostics extension on a VM. This can be dynamically applied to a VM at any given time. We can enable the diagnostics extensions through
• CLI tools
• PowerShell
• Azure Resource Manager
• Visual Studio 2013 ...
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