Monitoring on Azure HDInsight part 4: Workload metrics and logs
September 10, 2019
Learn how to monitor the workloads running on your Azure HDInsight cluster and view relevant logs to assist with debugging.
Log Analytics
Track the health of your disaster recovery with Log Analytics
August 29, 2019
Once you adopt Azure Site Recovery, monitoring of your setup can become a very involved exercise. You’ll need to ensure that the replication for all protected instances continue and that virtual machines are always ready for failover.
Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 3: Performance and resource utilization
June 13, 2019
Learn how to monitor performance and resource utilization on Azure HDInsight by keeping tabs on metrics, such as CPU, memory, and network usage, to better understand how your cluster is handling your workloads and whether you have enough resources to complete the task at hand.
Transforming Azure Monitor Logs for DevOps, granular access control, and improved Azure integration
May 23, 2019
Logs are critical for many scenarios in the modern digital world. They are used in tandem with metrics for observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, usage and service level analytics, auditing, security, and much more. Any plan to build an application or IT environment should include a plan for logs.
Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 2: Cluster health and availability
April 2, 2019
As a high-availability service, Azure HDInsight ensures that you can spend time focused on your workloads, not worrying about the availability of your cluster.
Analysis of network connection data with Azure Monitor for virtual machines
March 27, 2019
Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) collects network connection data that you can use to analyze the dependencies and network traffic of your VMs.
Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 1: An Overview
March 13, 2019
Azure HDInsight offers several ways to monitor your Hadoop, Spark or Kafka clusters. They can be broken down into three main categories: cluster health and availability, resource utilization and performance, and job status and logs.
Azure Monitor January 2019 updates
February 7, 2019
Azure Monitor provides sophisticated tools for collecting and analyzing telemetry that allow you to maximize the performance and availability of your cloud while also maximizing on-premises resources and applications.
Azure Monitor logs in Grafana - now in public preview
January 15, 2019
We’re happy to introduce the new Grafana integration with Azure Monitor logs. This integration is achieved through the new Log Analytics plugin, now available as part of the Azure Monitor data source.
Best practices for queries used in log alert rules
December 20, 2018
Queries can start with either a table name like search or union operators. These commands are useful during data exploration and for searching terms over the entire data model. However, these operators are not efficient for productization in alerts.