Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
At Tridius, we can help you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues affecting them and the resources they depend on. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner that specializes in servicing the Azure space, to assist with maintaining the most up to date Azure configuration, security, and of course, monitoring.
When planning your Azure Monitoring journey, we need to understand questions like the following: What should be monitored and who should be notified to fulfill our monitoring strategy? What is the SLA, Latency, and Urgency Consideration? What type of Data Privacy, Retention, Residency, and Compliance Requirements do we have?
A general guidance to alerting strategy stems from clarifying if it matters, urgency and who and what will be affected. Once we understand these items, we can start building a general strategy. Below we share an outline of the next few phases of our Azure Monitoring journey:
Enable Agent Deployment, Infrastructure Insights & Diagnostics Settings:
There are 3 things that need to be defined to setup an Azure Monitor Alert:
This is when Microsoft recommends focusing on Optimizing for Cost. They also provide some recommendations to Collect & Retain only as much data as you need.
By implementing a plan for monitoring we can understand what should be monitored, who should be notified, and how resources are organized to fully manage your Azure environment.
As you can see there is a lot that goes into enabling the necessary monitoring. But keep in mind, you are not in it alone. Tridius is here to help you every step of the way! We have plenty of relevant resources to get you started. Let Tridius inspire your team to innovate solutions that improve your Azure Monitoring Journey.
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