Enabling logging and configuring data retention for Azure services

As soon as we create an Azure subscription, we get full monitoring capabilities with the Azure Monitor service. This is a service where we do not need to enable or do any action, it is automatically available for our subscriptions. Although it provides us with full stack monitoring and advanced analytics, there are different things we can do with services that work on top of Azure Monitor. Azure Monitor can monitor and combine data in Azure, on-premises, and other clouds.

You can access the Azure Monitor service by searching for monitor on the search bar and clicking on the resource. In this blade, you will see all Monitor has to offer:

Figure 9.1 – An Azure Monitor overview

Let us see the key components of Azure Monitor.

Working with Azure Monitor

There are two types of data Monitor gathers, metrics and logs. Metrics are numerical values that represent various aspects of...