Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution for collecting, analyzing, and responding to monitoring data from your cloud and on-premises environments. You can use Azure Monitor to maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and allows you to manually and programmatically respond to system events.

Azure Monitor can monitor these types of resources in Azure, other clouds, or on-premises:

• Applications

• Virtual machines

• Guest operating systems

• Containers including Prometheus metrics

• Databases

• Security events in combination with Microsoft Sentinel

• Networking events and health in combination with Network Watcher

• Custom sources that use the APIs to get data into Azure Monitor

Microsoft combined three unique services—Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights—under the umbrella of Azure Monitor to provide powerful end-to-end monitoring of your applications and the components they rely on. Log Analytics and Application Insights are now features of Azure Monitor. The log data engine and query language of Log Analytics is now referred to as Azure Monitor Logs.

Azure Monitor is enabled the moment you create a new Azure subscription, and activity log and platform metrics are automatically collected. Create diagnostic settings to collect more detailed information about the operations of your Azure resources, and add monitoring solutions and insights to provide extra analysis on collected data for particular services.

No. Azure Monitor is a scalable cloud service that processes and stores large amounts of data, although Azure Monitor can monitor resources that are on-premises and in other clouds.

Azure Monitor is highly customizable and designed to support a wide range of workloads, including VMs, containers, applications, and hybrid environments. Visualization is also flexible, with options like Azure Workbooks, Azure Managed Grafana, and Azure Monitor dashboards for Grafana (preview) designed to meet the complex needs of different workloads.

Please see details on the pricing page here.