Several tools are available to help monitor and troubleshoot Azure applications, providing visibility, insights, and proactive alerts for optimal performance and security.
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is the central service for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing telemetry data from Azure resources and applications. It offers real-time metrics, logs, and custom dashboards, allowing teams to track health, usage, and diagnose issues quickly.
Application Insights
Application Insights, part of Azure Monitor, specializes in application-level monitoring. It provides detailed analytics on response times, dependencies, failures, user behavior, and exceptions. The tool features powerful distributed tracing to isolate bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues from code to cloud infrastructure.
Log Analytics
Log Analytics enables advanced querying across logs from multiple services. It can aggregate, filter, and correlate events, supporting deep investigations into outages, slowdowns, and anomalies. Its integration with Azure Monitor streamlines root cause analysis.
Azure Service Health
Azure Service Health informs you about ongoing incidents, planned maintenance, and service advisories specific to your Azure resources, helping reduce downtime and guiding troubleshooting efforts during outages.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Defender for Cloud provides security monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and incident reporting to detect and troubleshoot threats or misconfigurations in real time.
These tools collectively help maintain reliability, safeguard security, and troubleshoot Azure applications from the infrastructure layer through to business logic.