Monitor | Azure
Azure monitor service provides various services to monitor the health, metrics and activity log for the azure resources and for the on premises server as well.
The main services in Azure monitor are :
Metrics: It provides various metrics like CPU utilization, disk metrics etc.
Activity Log: It is used to check the activity performed in azure subscriptions.
Log Analytics Workspace: It is a central location for the logs for all the resources.
Application Insights: It is a performance management system which is used for live web application.
Alerts: This is used to generate an alert based on your condition.
To create an alert, go to Monitor → Click on Alerts → New alert rule → select resource → and then add condition.
You can chose either of the signal type for alerts and configure the alert logic.
Now you can add action group where the action will be taken on generated alerts. This action group can be used for multiple alerts.
and after sometime when these conditions are met, you will receive an alert.
You will receive an email once alerts are trigger.
There are two types of Alert logic Threshold
- Static
2. Dynamic
In dynamic you don’t have to provide the threshold value you just have to select Threshold Sensitivity as High, Medium or Low and Azure will intelligently trigger the alert based on that.
Once user receive an alert, he/she can change the alert state as shown in below image.
