The state of monitoring in Azure – DevOpsLinks – Medium

I've recently developed a strong interest for performance monitoring. This is the opportunity for me to expand my skills on Application Insights, which I've been using for many years, but also complement them with an overview of all the monitoring services available on Azure. As often on Azure, these services provide similar and overlapping features and even though this page gives helpful examples of "when to use which", I thought I would outline here, and in my own words, a review of their features, differences and similarities. Infrastructure and application monitoring are very different tasks that require different metrics and different exploitation of those metrics. Infrastructure monitoring calls for both a detailed reporting of the activity of each service of your system, and a synthetic, high-level overview of the global health of that system.