Azure Monitor is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft that offers various monitoring capabilities to manage and observe the performance and health of Azure resources. The service provides a unified platform to collect, analyze, and act on telemetry data from infrastructure, applications, and Azure services.

Azure Monitor is essential to identify issues before they affect the user experience. The service’s primary function is to collect and analyze performance metrics and logs from various sources. Metrics represent numerical values, such as CPU usage or memory usage, that measure the health and performance of a resource. Logs are records of events and data generated by an application or service, such as server errors or user actions.

Users can create alerts based on specific events or conditions to trigger actions like sending notifications or scaling an application. Azure Monitor integrates with other Azure services, such as Azure DevOps, Azure Security Center, and Azure Automation, to streamline monitoring and management processes.

Azure Monitor provides monitoring capabilities that help to understand resource performance and health. These capabilities include resource-level metrics, application insights, and custom logs. Resource-level metrics allow users to track resource usage and health such as CPU usage, memory usage, and network traffic. Application insights allow monitoring of application performance and usage data such as response time, request rates, and error rates. Custom logs enable users to track specific application components and custom events.

Users can customize Azure Monitor by creating custom dashboards, defining alert rules and thresholds, using advanced querying and visualization techniques, integrating with other Azure services, and customizing the Azure Monitor agent. Custom dashboards allow users to create a personalized view of their monitoring data. Alert rules and thresholds allow users to set up alerts and notifications based on specific events or conditions. Advanced querying and visualization techniques allow users to analyze monitoring data in more detail. Integrating with other Azure services helps to streamline monitoring and management processes. Finally, customizing the Azure Monitor agent enables users to collect specific data and integrate with external systems.

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