Azure Monitor
Overview
Azure Monitor provides full-stack monitoring, advanced analytics, and intelligent insights for your applications and infrastructure.
Real-life Use Cases
Cloud Architect: Design centralized monitoring for multi-region deployments.
DevOps Engineer: Set up alerts for auto-scaling and incident response.
Terraform Example
resource "azurerm_monitor_action_group" "alerts" {
name = "devops-alerts"
resource_group_name = var.resource_group
short_name = "alerts"
email_receiver {
name = "devops"
email_address = "devops@example.com"
}
}
Bicep Example
resource actionGroup 'Microsoft.Insights/actionGroups@2022-06-15' = {
name: 'devops-alerts'
location: 'Global'
properties: {
groupShortName: 'alerts'
emailReceivers: [
{
name: 'devops'
emailAddress: 'devops@example.com'
}
]
}
}
Azure CLI Example
az monitor action-group create --resource-group my-rg --name devops-alerts --short-name alerts --action email devops devops@example.com
Best Practices
Centralize logs and metrics.
Use action groups for alerting.
Common Pitfalls
Not setting log retention policies.
Too many noisy alerts.
Joke: Why did Azure Monitor break up with the VM? Too many signals, not enough commitment!
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