Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. This information helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues that affect them and the resources they depend on.

A few examples of what you can do with Azure Monitor include:

Detect and diagnose issues across applications and dependencies with Application Insights.
Correlate infrastructure issues with VM insights and Container insights.
Drill into your monitoring data with Log Analytics for troubleshooting and deep diagnostics.
Support operations at scale with automated actions.
Create visualizations with Azure dashboards and workbooks.
Collect data from monitored resources by using Azure Monitor Metrics.
Investigate change data for routine monitoring or for triaging incidents by using Change Analysis.

Overview

The following diagram gives a high-level view of Azure Monitor.

The stores for the data platform are at the center of the diagram. Azure Monitor stores these fundamental types of data: metrics, logs, traces, and changes.
The sources of monitoring data that populate these data stores are on the left.
The different functions that Azure Monitor performs with this collected data are on the right. This includes such actions as analysis, alerting.
At the bottom is a layer of integration pieces. These are actually integrated throughout other parts of the diagram, but that is too complex to show visually.