AZ-104 Certification Notes

Chapter 12.4 - Understanding Monitor Insights

Describing Insights

• Service Monitoring
  • Service-specific monitoring features built into Azure Monitor
  • Includes:
    • VM Insights
    • Network Insights
    • Container Insights
    • Application Insights

VM and Network Insights

• VM Insights
  • Monitoring service specific to virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets (VMSS)
    • Requires Log Analytics workspace
    • Requires Log Analytics agent (installed when connected)
    • Also known as Azure Monitor for VMs
• Network Insights
  • Monitoring service specific to virtual network resources
    • No agent installation required
    • Works in tandem with Network Watcher if enabled
    • Also known as Azure Monitor for Networks

Container and Application Insights

• Container Insights
  • Monitoring service specific to containers or AKS clusters
    • Requires Log Analytics workspace
    • Requires Log Analytics agent
• Application Insights
  • Monitoring service specific to application code
    • App Insights resource
    • Instrumentation of app code

Key Takeaways

• VM Insights
  • Virtual machine and VMSS-specific monitoring service
• Network Insights
  • Virtual network-specific monitoring service
• Container Insights
  • Container or AKS cluster-specific monitoring service
• Application Insights
  • Application code-specific monitoring service