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Azure Monitor Primary Use Case

Muhammad Usman Khawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer (DevOps/ SRE) at Sensys LLC

In our organization, we use Azure Monitor for all our native Azure services. Our whole technology stack is in Azure. We use it for native services such as metrics, logs from our Azure Key Vault, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Kubernetes, and Azure Cosmos DB, and everything similar to that.

The major challenge that remains is the costing factor for the logs ingestion. The per GB cost is more than three dollars per GB. For using services such as Kubernetes, it's very easy to integrate Azure Monitor, however, the cost skyrockets once you start using it.

Stream Analytics is something that we just started evaluating from one of our projects, however, I'm not particularly hands-on with it. As far as Azure Monitor is concerned, I do use it.

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Syed Abid  - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra

I am using Azure Monitor for monitoring our infrastructure and Azure, our clients.

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Venkat Raju Mallipudi - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Chief of Enterprise Architecture & S/W Engineering/ CTO at Aventra Group

Our company is a premium member of Azure. Our clients use Azure Monitor effectively and we support services from Azure. At our company, we also support other Microsoft solutions, like Fabric. The tool is used for end-to-end infrastructure monitoring or VM monitoring. The performance of VMs, input/output operations, database operations, and high utilization for CPU or memory can be managed using Azure Monitor. 

There is also a notification service from Azure Monitor which lets you alert the production engineering team or managerial services team to act accordingly in case of any service breakage or failures. The solution can send notifications via SMS, phone calls, or emails. 

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reviewer2275260 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

I use Azure Monitor to monitor infrastructure. For instance, monitoring virtual machines on Azure, and I use it to monitor some management services like Azure Web Application, Azure Event Hub, Azure storage accounting, and Azure Kubernetes service. I am currently using several different use cases.

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RS
Assistant Director at Airvistara

We are in a consulting firm. Based on the requirement, we utilize our solutions. If any application requires specific monitoring, then we use Azure Monitor. We try to utilize the application functionality available, subject to the application requirements.

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IrfanRashid - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Atominos consulting

Azure Monitor is very good. We periodically monitor the performance of our database and servers, and we can manage that easily.

We have a lot of applications running, and we have asked our technical team to monitor their performance.

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BA
Devops consultant at Siemens Healthineers

Azure Monitor is primarily used to monitor your services.

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reviewer2392941 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

I have used the cloud version of Azure Monitor. If customers actively use a bunch of servers or resources and need to monitor the metrics of those devices or resources. Azure Monitor is used in such aforementioned cases for monitoring.

For instance, if a resource has been changed or access has been granted to a specific resource, a certain hard disk is offline, or a critical amount of disc space is in use, an alert needs to be generated and forwarded to the concerned professional, who is meant to work on resolving the alerts. 

Suppose a CPU is running at 100% capacity for a long duration. In that case, a service desk professional or a system administrator needs to be alerted using Azure Monitor to take appropriate action. 

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Mukund Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technology Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Azure Monitor is primarily used to monitor various aspects of Azure services and resources. It helps in tracking performance, detecting issues, and managing incidents related to cloud services. With Azure Monitor, there is no need to write specific code for monitoring purposes, as it automatically handles monitoring tasks and manages data related to cloud devices and services within Azure.

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Swapan Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy

Our company is a service integrator and we use the solution to monitor logs, metrics, and applications for customers. We have 200 users throughout our company. 

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NM
Founding Partner at 2Five1

Our main focus is on monitoring the utilization of resources, specifically within the ARRIS environment, where we utilize MySQL as the server. We actively track metrics such as CPU and memory utilization, as well as internet usage. The primary objective is to closely monitor resource utilization, providing insights that help us determine when adjustments to resource allocations are necessary.

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Praveen Kumar Deverakonda - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Administrator at Wipro Limited

We use the solution for the monitoring of the agent. Whatever resources we create, it will install one agent on that resource. It will collect all the matrices. It will do a detailed analysis of how much CPU, RAM, and memory should be utilized. We can get all this information by using Azure Monitor.

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RP
Associate Principal - Cloud Solutions at Apexon

We use Azure Monitor to log all the activity logs and the resource logs to something similar to AWS CloudWatch. It is enabled for most of the services as it goes hand in hand with application insights.

Alerts are set up using robust metrics that we are able to retrieve from Azure Monitor, allowing us to automate and look at different rules and action groups. 

Our component configuration keeps changing. Because of this, we need to put alerts on the components to figure out who changed them and what did they changed in them.

We have been using Azure Monitor quite regularly, both for internal usage and for our customers. Customers will have to use Log Analytics in combination with Azure Monitor. 

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PINAR YILDIRAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Service Development at Zorlu Holding

We use the solution for only production monitoring mainly, however, we are trying to engage it with the quality flows for moving the code between platforms from dev to test environments, et cetera. We'll implement this procedure afterward.

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Mark Hawkins-Wood - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Cloud Operations at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We use it for proactive infrastructure monitoring. It's being used for monitoring the key metrics and availability of infrastructure.

We most probably use its latest version.

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Abdeldjalil Sichaib - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO / Cloud Architect / Freelance at Skyops

I am an Azure architect and present the solution to customers for use in monitoring infrastructures, applications, and containers.

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JN
IT Manager at Software Gurus

We use Azure Monitor to monitor all the infrastructure that we have in the cloud.

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VJ
Solution Architecture at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

As an Azure solution architect, I am currently assisting a client who requires a quote for a report comparison between New Relic and Azure Monitor. Given my experience with Azure Monitor, my goal is to showcase its capabilities and potentially eliminate the need for New Relic in their environment.

Azure Monitor is primarily a web application that offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities for Azure resources. It encompasses various aspects, including logging and application insights. With Azure Monitor, you can configure alerts and rules based on specific conditions, such as triggering an alert when CPU usage exceeds 80%. The cost of alerts and notifications in Azure Monitor is relatively affordable, typically charging around 10 cents per alert per rule, allowing for a large volume of SMS notifications, such as up to a hundred thousand.

Comparatively, New Relic also offers cost-effective solutions. However, it is important to note that New Relic's pricing structure includes charges for user creation. Normal user creation can cost around $50, while admin users may incur a charge of approximately $99. 

On the other hand, when using Azure Monitor, if your organization already has an Azure subscription with Azure Active Directory (AD), you can leverage the existing user access and permissions, granting appropriate rights and access to the Azure portal as needed.

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reviewer1979604 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I am not using the product by myself. I recommend the tool to our customers. Our company's customers use Azure Monitor in their DevOps practices since it offers easy-to-monitor components. Usually, we augment the product since DXC has its own tool. In our company, we also deploy our own tools on Dynatrace. We also have our own set of tools called DXC Platform X, which gets deployed to the cloud, and the native cloud tools like Azure Monitor are augmented by our own tool.

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RV
Lead architect at Ziggo Services B.V.

Azure Monitor is utilized for observability purposes, specifically for monitoring and alerting Azure states to customers.

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M ANakib - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Consultant at CloudThat

As a Microsoft MVP and MCT, I help our company's clients use Azure Monitor in different ways depending on what types of activity they want to monitor. From a big picture perspective, this entails checking and testing both the performance and efficiency of cloud-based applications.

Starting from the basics, such as when monitoring VMs, you are able to integrate Azure Monitor with the virtual machine so as to create alerts and notifications that are automatically triggered when, for example, the machine's performance rises above 60-70%.

You can also use Azure Monitor to help you understand the total internal activity, including the CPU or RAM performance, of specific applications on the cloud. And beyond that, there are many other metrics detailing which users have logged in (or are concurrently logged in) to the application or VM, while showing the ratios of their activity in total.

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EI
Subject Matter Expert at Vision Software

The solution is included in all of our solutions created with ISO. We always include Azure Monitor as the primary service to review the infrastructure state for our customers.

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Lokesh Goyal - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Infosys

I use Azure Monitors and Azure monitoring to monitor our applications.

It is used for balancing how your servers are working and how your servers are responding to the end user in the form of your inputs and output responses, your gate input responses and post request, and how your server is working about the workload, et cetera. We can monitor all of this by using Azure monitoring tools. There are some application insights also that we can use to put in more detailed metrics as related to the logs and the failure of the servers, and downtime, et cetera.

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NK
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar

I mainly use Azure Monitor to monitor my WordPress site for availability, performance, and error logs.

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George Nsude - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Ultiblob Cloud Services

Azure Monitor can be used to monitor on-prem servers. You can install the agent on a server on-premise and you can pull out whatever telemetry you want. Additionally, you can install it on servers that are on the public cloud. It's similar to hybrid solutions. However, it depends on the use case. If there's a server on-premise, you deploy the server in AWS or GCP. If the server is on Azure itself, then it plugs directly in which is a hybrid setup.

Azure Monitor can be used if you are trying to look for how all the applications are tied together, such as application mapping. It helps to know what ports are open, what services are running on certain servers as one. 

We are able to monitor CPU utilization for specific servers to determine if they are running specific types of workloads or high resource utilization type workloads. We use Azure Monitor to be able to see if the server gets to a certain threshold, such as 70 percent CPU utilization, then send an alert to the operation center or reliability center to go look at it. They could then expand or increase the CPU resource there to fix the issue. The tool is used for monitoring purposes.

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SaurabhSingh1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Sales Architect at Softline

I use the Azure Monitor in my company since it is a part of every solution we send to our customers. From a monitoring perspective, the use cases attached to the tool are enormous. Usually, my company uses it to monitor all Azure services that our customers use. My company also uses Azure Monitor if we want to monitor our customers' on-premises environment. In the case of any third-party cloud environment, my company suggests that customers have Azure Arc implemented in their environment. With it, they can monitor usage and monitoring while having one single dashboard for all their environments.

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Erwin Del Rosario - PeerSpot reviewer
Full Stack Software Engineer at Collabera Philippines

We use the solution to develop AI technology, particularly for financial services. It involves creating a chatbot or conversational AI system.

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Jawed Iqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Systems at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology

Azure Monitor helps monitor resources to get alerts on the usage or incident's generation. One can also use it to log the events in the event's hub or analyze them through Azure Log Analytics workspace and SIEM tools available to analyze your resource utilization.

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ZK
Vice President - Network Management at ADS Securities LLC

We use this solution for basically everything. For example, we use it for infrastructure, application and resource monitoring.

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Khang Do - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use Azure Monitor as our alert system. We also use it for other types of measurement.

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reviewer1378248 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Application Developer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We all use Microsoft in the company and we are customers of Azure Monitor. 

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reviewer2275260 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications. 

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reviewer2123535 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Automated Tester & Test Manager & AnalystSenior at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution for Application Insights logging, Database logging, etc. We also use it to analyze charts on the dashboard to get an overview of the issues found in the logs. The solution helps us in monitoring, analytics, and logging.

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AP
Cloud Architect at Cloud4C Services

We have multiple customer internet-facing applications, so we require granular control of each of the data flows. That is something this product helps with.

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SA
Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

My client used Azure Monitor to monitor the environment in Azure.

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BS
Senior System Administrator at BCBS of Kansas City

We're using Azure Monitor end connection as a hybrid model where it's integrated into Dynatrace. Azure Monitor monitors the infrastructure of Azure within our cloud environment. It doesn't give you any explanations or anything like that. It's just metrics, just data. We've integrated this data into Dynatrace so that the Dynatrace system and AI can give accurate response times, performance on metrics, and things like that. 

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TB
Server Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We haven't yet implemented it in my current company. It's going to be for our clients. We're an MSP, and we'll be implementing it for some of our clients. The only thing that we're thinking about is using it for performance monitoring and storage monitoring. Its use case is most likely going to be to manage data.

We're building out a cloud plan. We're trying to pick our own. We're trying to move certain companies into the cloud. There is a debate going on about taking the Microsoft route rather than the AWS route or the Google route. If we're going to go with Azure, we would need a monitoring tool.

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RT
System and Network Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are currently testing the Azure Monitor, yet we've not turned it on for production yet.

We were looking for a monitoring tool. We needed a few features, and then we thought that Azure Monitor might not be able to do everything for us out of the box. There might be some development work that may be involved if we have to use Azure Monitor. However, we've really not used it. We are just trying it out now.

The major thing we will use it for is to monitor applications and then resources. For the ones that are on the app services, they are straightforward; however, we're looking at monitoring applications that are running on the virtual machines, on VMs. That's not straightforward. You need to be able to use some APIs to be able to do the logs from the applications that are running on the VM and all that. 

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reviewer1378656 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Advisory Senior Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The main use case for this solution includes infrastructure monitoring, Application Insights and APM.

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Pradeep Saxena - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Officer at Evangelist

I use this service for log analytics of application and SQL database

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reviewer1577586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Java Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I use the SaaS version. I use Azure Monitor to collect and index logs for my systems. It allows me to search through my logs and find bugs and mistakes. From there, it helps me report these mistakes.

We use this solution every day. I plan on continuing to use this solution for specific parts of projects but for other portions of my projects, I plan on using DataDog or something similar. 

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reviewer1188402 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution as a Server monitoring service.

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reviewer1346067 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are a consulting and software development firm and we have a lot of experience with Cloud solutions. In 2019 we start our Solutions in Microsoft Azure. The Azure Monitor is one of the products that we used for our solutions and client tools to monitor the relevant infrastructur, applications and problems. Azure Monitor is a usefull tool to have a dashboard with all metrics information over all using enviroments.

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AF
S/W Technologies & Processes Unit Manager at Unisystems

Our use case for this solution is application monitoring using the Insights app. We have about five specialists in our operations team and we also have an application management team of around 10 people. There are plans to increase usage but that's something that is driven by the customers that we provide our services to. We partner with Azure Monitor and I work as a SW technologist and process unit manager in the company. 

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reviewer1188402 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using multiple monitoring tools at the moment and are looking for a single solution that can monitor everything. As part of our current setup, we are using Azure Monitor to monitor our network.

It ensures that our network is responding correctly and looks to see if there are any anomalies.

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VN
Senior Systems Administrator at Herbalife

We use it to monitor all the services and applications, whether it is running or whether it is standing still. We use it to monitor the server and all of the CPUs so you can audit the bandwidth that has been consumed - all the day to day administrative stuff.

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TK
IT Consultant at productive it solutions

I use Monitor for up-down (up time / down time) monitoring and tracking performance events within Azure. Essentially, I use it for log analytic searches, backend searches, and also to provide insights into Azure Monitor.

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PF
Technical Engineer at Asperion

We have a financial application that needs to be working, and for our organization, it's important to be able to see the status of the overall application, which we have now. That's our primary use case for the solution. 

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PA
Senior Principal Consultant at GDPRTech

We are doing the Azure cloud transformation by moving to link up the application to the cloud. Monitoring is one part of application's transformation.

I only work with the cloud-based model. 

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Oscar Abouchaaya - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner / Consultant at Procomix

We are an operation center so we use this solution mainly to monitor all of our clients' environments and to help them with technical issues. So it's mainly promoting clients' environments, technical issues, and being proactive.

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RO
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Azure Monitor helps with infrastructure monitoring and getting application logs. 

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reviewer1764114 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use Azure Data Factory mainly, and we build our own ETR using Databricks. We are a services company, so depending on the requirement for the customer, we use all of Azure's products. We work with infrastructure deployment and want to monitor the health of our deployments.

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