Thread by @jamesdplee

Knowing Azure Monitor is a must for many roles. But are there other monitoring services you should learn?

There’s monitoring for security, networks, SQL, and more. Some within Azure Monitor, others are elsewhere.

For apps, one you should know is Application Insights.

App Insights can help you:
🧠 Understand usage trends 
🧠 Monitor performance live
🧠 Map application components

You can even use AI/ML to perform "smart monitoring" to analyze and detect failures and anomalies in your app proactively.

🧙‍♂️If your app is running in Azure, you can enable this automagically.

There's an approach called autoinstrumentation which works on Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and VMs.

As long as you use a supported language, you can gather telemetry without modifying code.

👩‍💻If you host your app outside of Azure, you can still use App Insights by adding the SDK to your application.

It supports many different environments and languages.

Run it in AWS if you like 😄

If you're interested in learning more, I'm working on a lesson right now for my upcoming AZ-400 course (ETA June/July at learn.cloudlee.io).

Monitoring is useful, and Microsoft expects you know it across most roles (security, administration, development, DevOps, and more).

You can learn more about Azure Monitor, alerting, and others in my AZ-104 course also: learn.cloudlee.io/p/az-104-micro…

#monitoring #azure #insights