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Monitoring overview - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press
Monitoring overview
- [Instructor] Hello, and welcome to this lesson on monitoring. We start with monitoring in this course because it impacts everything, from management to performance, security, and alerting. Therefore, monitoring and logging in Azure is a key feature of the platform. In fact, monitoring is so important, it's enabled by default. However, this doesn't mean that we don't need to consider monitoring in our designs. Each service has its own nuances, and the platform as a whole has a number of options for how we can configure our solutions, depending on our organizational needs. Monitoring is largely split into two different types: metrics and logs. Metrics describe an aspect of a system at a particular point in time, and is displayed as numerical values. Logs, on the other hand, contain data that is organized into records with different sets of properties for each type. Data such as events, traces, and performance data…