Monitoring Options for Applications in Azure

Learn how many types of monitoring services available in Azure to monitor your applications.

Design a Logging and Monitoring Solution in Azure

Below are the topics you should know:

• Determine levels and storage location for logs.
• Plan for integration with monitoring tools including Azure Monitoring tool and Azure Sentinel.
• Recommend appropriate monitoring tool(s) for a solution.
• Choose a mechanism for event routing and escalation.
• Recommend a logging solution for compliance requirements.

In this article we are focusing on

Options for Monitoring Applications in Azure

Below are the services to Monitor your applications:

Application-level monitoring services:

1. Application Insights
2. App Center

Subscription / resource group / virtual network level monitoring services:

1. Network Watcher
2. Azure Monitor
3. Security Center
4. Advisor
5. Sentinel

Above services can provide more of an overview than just status of application.

Application Insight

• use to monitor web app, API and desktop app.
• is a service and part of Azure Monitor.
• from marketing standpoint, it is feature for Azure Monitor.
• in reality it is a Standalone feature.

Visual Studio App Center

• use to monitor mobile app
• also used to deploy and test mobile app

Network Watcher

• use to monitor and inspect network traffic.

Azure Monitor

• is a main monitoring service in Azure.
• can see overview of other monitoring services like App Insights.
• analyze and query logs and metrics from other monitoring services.

Azure Security Center

• provides an overview of security status & recommendations of your services
• helps prevent security incidents

Azure Advisor

• monitors all of the recommendations within the azure subscriptions
• provides overview to take actions.
• it’s not strictly monitoring service.

Sentinel

• security focused service like security center.
• works with security center to analyze and hunt for threats and security incidents and fix them.

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