Public Preview: Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Windows VMs to enhance VM Troubleshooting

Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s comprehensive monitoring solution for collecting, analyzing and responding to monitoring data, maximizing the availability and performance of your applications and services. By leveraging existing on-demand Performance Diagnostics for an Azure VM, Azure Monitor enables you to get actionable insights, recommendations, and diagnostics data to address performance issues. The insights help identify the root cause of these issues.

We are excited to announce Continuous Performance Diagnostics. This new feature enhances the existing on-demand Performance Diagnostics for an Azure VM, offering continuous, actionable insights into high resource usage. Data is collected every 5 seconds and updates are uploaded every 5 minutes to your preferred storage account, whose retention policies you can customize according to your needs. This proactive approach to performance management empowers you to promptly diagnose performance issues as they arise due to high resource usage in your Azure VM, mitigating downtime and maximizing efficiency. The feature can be disabled at any time.

Now available in Public Preview for Windows VMs, Continuous Performance Diagnostics represents a significant advancement in Azure VM performance troubleshooting and management.

By delivering actionable insights, recommendations, and diagnostics data, Azure Monitor equips you with the tools necessary to optimize resource utilization, streamline operations, and ultimately drive greater business success in the dynamic digital landscape.

For more information, please visit the documentation.