Chapter 4
Azure Monitor
Overview
Microsoft released Application Insights in public preview in April 2015 to provide clients deploying applications in Azure with deeper insights into each application’s performance. In September 2016, Microsoft released Azure Monitor in public preview. At the start, Azure Monitor included capabilities to gather, monitor (using shared dashboards), analyze, and alert on activity logs, resource metrics, and diagnostic logs.
Over time, Microsoft has consolidated Application Insights, Log Insights, and Azure resource monitoring into Azure Monitor. Microsoft has also extended Azure Monitor’s capabilities, third-party integrations, and available metrics and integrations across Azure resources.
Key benefits
Azure Monitor ...
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