Azure Monitoring – 2nd Part

This is the continuation of azure learning series. And in this section, we will deep dive further into azure monitoring. Here we will discuss following topics in detail

  • Metrics
  • Cost Management
  • Azure Recommendations

Hence, without wasting time, let’s get started.

Metrics

  • Alerts are basically notifications which gets fired when it meets some criteria.image
  • Let’s set a metric for VM.image

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  • Now, once i click on create rule. It will come like this.

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  • We can also manage action groups like shown below.

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  • Now when I click on the same, it will come like this.

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  • From here, I can edit the existing one or create new one as well.

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Cost Management

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  • It will bring us to the below page.

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  • I have masked my email address from here. Next, when you click on Cost management as shown on the left side.

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  • Now, we can go ahead and click on Open cost analysis. This will bring the below view.

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  • This is the high level chart. But, if you want to get detailed information. Then, you can click on Cost by resource as highlighted.

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Azure Recommendations

  • When I click on Advisor recommendations, it will come like this

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  • Here, we can go ahead create rule like how we have created earlier

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  • Once it created, it will show notification and then when I go into Manage alerts. It will come like this.

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I hope you would have liked this discussion. Thanks for joining me.

Thanks,
Rahul Sahay
Happy Coding