In the last two chapters, I've tried to extend our current perspective on Azure to specific architectural aspects. These aspects affect our day-to-day work and therefore, the design process for our own Azure solutions.

So far, the focus has been on availability, performance, and scalability. All three themes have one thing in common. They only work with telemetry data and sophisticated monitoring solutions.

In order to fully deal with the topic, we will focus on monitoring and telemetry in this chapter.

This chapter is divided into two parts. In part one, we discuss the question of what type of data we are actually talking about. Then, in part two, I will introduce you to the possible solutions for capturing this data.

We will explore the following topics in detail in this chapter:

• Telemetry data
• An overview of monitoring
• Azure management portal
• System specific tools
• Microsoft System Center
• Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)
• Azure Monitor
• Azure Application Insights
• Grafana
• Azure Log Analytics
• Azure Network Watcher