Azure Monitor for Cloud Workloads

By RyanAZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design, Published, Tool Description

Virtual machines hosted in the Azure cloud can be centrally-monitored, both Windows and Linux, using a client agent.

  1. Add the Azure Monitor to your subscription in the portal.
  2. Create a Log Analytics workspace, to collects the logs.
  3. Install the Dependency agent, which relies on the Log Analytics agent to forward logs.
    • Push from the Azure portal directly to the VM using the Insights blade.
    • For multiple VMs or VM scale sets, enable through Azure policy or PowerShell.
    • Physical computers can run the agent as a software install.

More information and links for the downloads are available in the Azure document Enable Azure Monitor for VMs (preview) overview