VM insights provides a quick and easy method for getting started monitoring the client workloads on your virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets. It displays an inventory of your existing VMs and provides a guided experience to enable base monitoring for them. It also monitors the performance of your virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets by collecting data on their running processes and dependencies on other resources.
VM insights supports Windows and Linux operating systems on:
Virtual machines hosted in another cloud environment.
VM insights provides a set of predefined workbooks that allow you to view trending of collected performance data over time. You can view this data in a single VM from the virtual machine directly, or you can use Azure Monitor to deliver an aggregated view of multiple VMs.
Pricing
There's no direct cost for VM insights, but you're charged for its activity in the Log Analytics workspace. Based on the pricing that's published on the Azure Monitor pricing page, VM insights is billed for:
Data ingested from agents and stored in the workspace.
Alert rules based on log data.
Notifications sent from alert rules.
The log size varies by the string lengths of performance counters. It can increase with the number of logical disks and network adapters allocated to the VM. If you're already using Service Map, the only change you'll see is the extra performance data that's sent to the Azure Monitor InsightsMetrics data type.
Access VM insights
Access VM insights for all your virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets by selecting Virtual Machines from the Monitor menu in the Azure portal. To access VM insights for a single virtual machine or virtual machine scale set, select Insights from the machine's menu in the Azure portal.
Limitations
VM insights collects a predefined set of metrics from the VM client and doesn't collect any event data. You can use the Azure portal to create data collection rules to collect events and additional performance counters using the same Azure Monitor agent used by VM insights.
VM insights doesn't support sending data to multiple Log Analytics workspaces (multi-homing).
It displays an inventory of your existing VMs and provides a guided experience to enable base monitoring for them. It also monitors the performance of your virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets by collecting data on their running processes and dependencies on other resources.
It analyzes the performance and health of your Windows and Linux VMs and monitors their processes and dependencies on other resources and external processes. Monitors the performance of container workloads that are deployed to managed Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service.
In summary, Azure Application Insights focuses on monitoring the performance and user behavior of applications, while Azure Monitor provides a broader scope of monitoring for applications, infrastructure, and operating systems.
To monitor VM guest data, you need to install Azure Monitor Agent on the VM and set up a data collection rule (DCR). The VM Insights feature automatically installs Azure Monitor Agent on your VM and sets up a default data collection rule for quick and easy onboarding.
In conclusion, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics collectively offer a robust solution for monitoring Azure resources. While Azure Monitor provides a lot of features including aggregation of logs, real-time insights and performance metrics, Log Analytics allows advanced query capabilities and extensive log data analysis.
Azure Monitor's core consumption methods include tools to provide insights, visualize, and analyze data. The visualization tools build on the analysis tools and the insights build on top of both the visualization and analysis tools.
Click on Get Started, it will ask you register the app with Azure credentials but just ignore that and click on Or just add the SDK to try local only mode. This will import the necessary packages and add in the ApplicationInsights. config file.
All data collected by Azure Monitor fits into one of two fundamental types: metrics and logs. Metrics are numerical values that describe some aspect of a system at a particular point in time. They are lightweight and capable of supporting near real-time scenarios.
Azure Monitor provides a complete set of features to monitor your Azure resources. It can also monitor resources in other clouds and on-premises. Azure Event Hubs collects the same kinds of monitoring data as other Azure resources that are described in Monitoring data from Azure resources.
The VMM kernel runs alongside the host OS, and calls for I/O are redirected to virtual drivers that call the native API of the host OS. Examples of OS-hosted VMMs are VMware Workstation, VMware Server, Parallels Workstation and Parallels Desktop for Mac.
Azure Monitor Logs collects logs and performance data where they can be retrieved and analyzed in different ways by using log queries. You must create a Log Analytics workspace to collect log data. Use Log Analytics to analyze data from Azure Monitor Logs.
Both Azure Monitor and Azure Advisor provide actionable insights: Azure Monitor offers us a way to respond to any given issue in real time.Similarly, Azure Advisor offers detailed recommendations to holistically optimize our operations. Thus, both services provide us actionable insights.
Azure Application Insights is a powerful cloud-based service provided by Microsoft that helps developers to monitor and diagnose the performance of their applications. It is a part of the Azure Monitor family of services that provide end-to-end monitoring solutions for applications, infrastructure, and networks.
Cost and Licensing: Azure Monitor is a native service provided by Microsoft Azure and is included in most Azure subscriptions. The cost usually depends on the service tiers and data ingestion volumes. Grafana, being open-source, is free to use and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
Data is sent to an Application Insights Log Analytics workspace. You can choose the retention period for raw data, from 30 to 730 days. Aggregated data is retained for 90 days, and debug snapshots are retained for 15 days.
Which of the following is a benefit of using Azure Monitor Insights? You can view how a resource is performing and identify potential problems. Explanation: Azure Monitor Insights lets you easily analyze the collected data for each hybrid network resource.
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