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Understanding how to monitor your Azure resources and manage costs is just as important as knowing how to build with them. Azure provides comprehensive tools for observability, alerting, and cost control.
Azure Monitor is the unified monitoring platform for Azure. It collects, analyses, and acts on telemetry from your Azure resources, applications, and infrastructure.
| Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Metrics | Numerical time-series data | CPU utilisation, request count, latency |
| Logs | Structured event records | Application errors, audit events, resource changes |
| Traces | Distributed request tracing | End-to-end request flow across services |
| Component | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Metrics Explorer | Visualise and analyse metrics in real time |
| Log Analytics | Query logs using Kusto Query Language (KQL) |
| Alerts | Trigger notifications or actions based on conditions |
| Dashboards | Custom visualisations of metrics and logs |
| Workbooks | Interactive reports combining text, queries, and visualisations |
Azure Monitor alerts notify you when conditions are met:
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