Azure Monitor

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Definition

Azure service for collecting and analyzing telemetry data from cloud and on-premises environments. Like having a comprehensive health monitoring system for all your technology infrastructure.

Real-World Example

IT teams use Azure Monitor to track application performance and get alerts when servers experience issues.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

All of these services collect metrics, logs, and traces, support dashboards and alerting, and help troubleshoot infrastructure and applications. Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s unified observability platform, integrating metrics, logs (Log Analytics), traces (Application Insights), alerts, and workbooks across Azure resources and hybrid environments.

AWS
Amazon CloudWatch
AZ
Azure Monitor
GCP
Google Cloud Observability (Cloud Monitoring + Cloud Logging + Cloud Trace + Cloud Profiler)
OCI
Oracle Cloud Observability and Management (Logging, Monitoring, APM)

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