Azure Monitoring:

• Enable Monitoring, collect metrix and logs and build dashboard

DataTypes in Azure Monitoring:

1. Metrics:

• Numeric time series values – time, name , value
• it will store data in azure Monitoring database
• ex: cpu, memory, network input/output and disk iops

2. logs:

• text – error message , sucess, fail , status code
• log analytics workspace – store logs (container)
• windows events, linux sys logs, app logs , custom logs
• DCR- rule for collect data and store in log analytics workspace
• KQL query – fetch data

Key componets:

1. Host – collection of Metrics for every vm
2. AMA – azure Monitoring agent – agent will be runing on vm
3. DCR- Data collection Rule – define what to collect from vm
4. LAW – Log analytics workspace – where we want store logs
5. VM Insight – ready-made Monitoring experience
6. Workbooks/Dashboard/Grafana – visualization options.

Architecture azure vm Monitoring

Pre-requests

1. sub – azure Monitoring and runing vm (windows/linux)
2. permisssions: azure Monitoring contrubtion + vm contrubtion
3. LAW need created or need to create
4. connection between vm and azure Monitoring enpoints or (pravite link/ proxy configure)

Enable monitoring for vm

sudo apt update && sudo apt install stress -y 
stress --vm 2 --vm-bytes 1G --timeout 300s ## add load cpu