Monitoring strategy on Azure - Azure Solution Architect Expert
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Managing On-premise workloads the monitoring was based primarily on alerts so a manual intervention could be taken in the event of an issue. The tools for this from Microsoft were in the System Center suite of products, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), tuning and the design and configuration of the roll-up monitors used to be difference between meaningful alerting and a bombardment of alerts which would then just be ignored.
So enough of the past, we are in the cloud now and running our workloads in Azure.
There are (at the moment) three main options
Azure Monitor
Azure Security Center
Azure Sentinel
Azure Monitor
As you can see from the graphic it is made up of a number of resources, in my designs I've been trying to work to a pattern of Monitor, Remediate and Alert which remediate can be the most difficult part to implement.
Alerts are no different, Autoscale is only useful if the solution supports it. Playbooks are based on Logic Apps which can easily make up a post just on that topic.
For the Architect it is matching the correct solution to meet the technical challenge or requirement and Azure Monitor makes up the first part.
Azure Security Center
Similar to Azure Monitor there is the facility to work to the same pattern Monitor, Remediate and Alert and again with Logic App Playbooks
The last option and the now not so "New Kid on the block" is
Azure Sentinel
The wish and goal for anyone who has managed large infrastructures would have been aggregation of logs when something goes wrong you then had to check the event logs across all the components making up the solution.
I have not used it yet so can only share the link and the joy from reading through what is possible now
Guess what? Also connects to Logic App Playbooks.
Well that's it for now