Azure Monitor

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Azure's monitoring service that collects metrics and logs from cloud and on-premises resources; its log half is Log Analytics.

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Key points about Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor collects, analyzes and acts on telemetry from Azure resources, applications and infrastructure. · Azure Monitor — Simply Explained
A first step is to enable Azure Monitor on your first VM and turn on diagnostic settings. · Azure Monitor — Simply Explained
AVD scales resources with demand to cut costs, and monitoring with Azure Monitor and Nerdio supports continuous tuning. · AVD vs Windows 365
Centralize telemetry and health checks per tenant with Application Insights or Azure Monitor. · Fix Multi-Tenant SPFx Authentication

Episodes about Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor — Simply Explained

2026-07-15 · Video on YouTube

Azure Monitor is Microsoft's comprehensive monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations understand the health, performance, and availability of their cloud and on-premises environments. Instead of manually checking servers, applications, and…

Azure MCP Server - Simply Explained

2026-07-15 · Video on YouTube

Azure MCP Server extends the power of artificial intelligence beyond chat by allowing AI assistants and agents to securely interact with Azure resources through the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). In this episode of Microsoft Knowledge Nuggets on M365 FM…

Azure Arc - Simply Explained

2026-07-16 · Video on YouTube

Azure Arc extends Azure's management, security, and governance capabilities beyond the Azure cloud, allowing you to manage servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and other resources running on-premises, at the edge, or in other cloud providers from a single…

AVD vs Windows 365

2026-08-06 · Video on YouTube

Choosing the right virtual desktop platform has become one of the most important decisions for organizations modernizing their workplace. Although Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 are often compared, they solve different business challenges. In…

Fix Multi-Tenant SPFx Authentication

2025-08-05 · Video on YouTube

Shipping a SharePoint Framework app to another tenant and watching auth blow up, Graph return nothing, and users not even see the web part? You’re not cursed—multi-tenant SPFx is. In this episode, I show the exact authentication traps that tank cross-tenant…

Timeline of episodes about Azure Monitor

Articles about Azure Monitor (1)

Mastering Cost Management in Azure Monitor
2026-08-27 · Mirko Peters
Welcome back to the podcast companion blog! In today's post, we are diving deep into a topic that keeps many cloud architects, developers, and IT administrators up …

Frequently asked questions

What is Azure Monitor?

Azure Monitor is Microsoft's service for collecting, analyzing and acting on telemetry from Azure resources, applications and infrastructure, including hybrid environments. · From the episode: Azure Monitor — Simply Explained

What problem does Azure Monitor solve?

Teams often have separate dashboards for VMs, apps and security that do not talk to each other. Azure Monitor brings metrics, logs and alerts into one place. · From the episode: Azure Monitor — Simply Explained

What is a single pane of glass in Azure Monitor?

It means seeing apps, infrastructure, identity and security data in one place, such as checking Entra ID sign-in logs and Application Insights without switching admin centers. · From the episode: Azure Monitor — Simply Explained

How do I get started with Azure Monitor?

Enable it on your first VM and turn on diagnostic settings to see what you have been missing. Setting up alerts is the next step to catch issues before users are affected. · From the episode: Azure Monitor — Simply Explained

Which tools monitor AVD performance?

Azure Monitor and Nerdio, along with workload optimization, storage performance, session host sizing and bandwidth considerations. · From the episode: AVD vs Windows 365

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Maintained by Mirko Peters (Microsoft MVP) · Last updated: 2026-11-03