Monitor your Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor

Module
7 Units

Beginner

Administrator

Azure

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Monitor

Learn how to monitor your Azure VMs by using Azure Monitor to collect and analyze VM host and client metrics and logs.

Learning objectives

Understand which monitoring data you need to collect from your VM.
Enable and view recommended alerts and diagnostics.
Use Azure Monitor to collect and analyze VM host metrics data.
Use Azure Monitor Agent to collect VM client performance data and Linux Syslog events.

Prerequisites

At least Contributor role access to an Azure subscription covering the VM, workspace, and data collection rules
Familiarity with virtualization and Azure VMs

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Introduction min
Monitoring for Azure VMs min
Monitor VM host data min
Use metrics explorer to view detailed host metrics min
Collect client performance counters by using VM insights min
Collect VM client event logs min
Summary min