Source: devblogs.microsoft.com

Monitoring Azure by using Grafana dashboards

Category: Data, Kubernetes, Docker, github, shell

By using Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights, Azure cloud teams have access to a collection of end-to-end monitoring solutions, directly from the Azure Portal, allowing for Azure Services monitoring, as well as hybrid. Monitoring involves reading out a combination of: – metrics, for example CPU and Memory load on a Virtual Machine, number of HTTPS connections to an Azure App Service,…

This article takes you from the initial Grafana installation to how to integrate the aforementioned Azure monitoring services and build out powerful dashboards.

In this article, I wanted to introduce you to Grafana, an Open Source dashboarding tool, allowing for aggregating different sources like Azure Monitor, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and several other, and building up powerful dashboards. If you are only using Azure resources, I would personally recommend drilling down on all the capabilities of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for sure.

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