Before we look at how monitoring your Azure solution can benefit your business processes, let's first review what types of monitoring exist. When we have a better understanding of this, we will return to the topic of this section and see how the business processes of an organization are benefited by monitoring.

The following types of monitoring are relevant for monitoring Azure solutions or hybrid solutions:

• Availability monitoring
• Health monitoring
• Performance monitoring
• Threshold monitoring

Let's discuss the characteristics of these types and then identify how each type affects business processes.