Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring service in Microsoft Azure that provides full-stack observability for applications, infrastructure, and networks. It collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data from cloud and on-premises environments, offering metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards. The service helps organizations ensure availability, performance, and reliability of their systems.
Developers should use Azure Monitor when building or managing applications on Azure to gain insights into performance, troubleshoot issues, and set up proactive alerts. It is essential for monitoring cloud-native applications, virtual machines, containers, and databases, enabling DevOps practices and compliance with service-level agreements (SLAs). Use cases include tracking application response times, detecting anomalies in resource usage, and generating reports for operational health.