Question

Your company runs 60 Windows and Linux VMs across two Azure regions hosting a multi-tier line-of-business application. Operations engineers report intermittent slowdowns but cannot determine which process or downstream dependency is causing them. You must recommend a monitoring solution that provides performance metrics, process-level detail, and an automatically discovered map of network connections and dependencies between the VMs, with minimal custom configuration. Which solution should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Enable VM insights (Azure Monitor for VMs) with the Azure Monitor Agent and the Dependency Agent, sending data to a Log Analytics workspace.

Answer

Configure diagnostic settings on each VM to stream the boot diagnostics and guest metrics to an Azure Storage account for later analysis.

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Deploy Network Watcher connection monitor between the VMs and review the resulting connection metrics in Azure Monitor Metrics.

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Install Application Insights SDK in the application and use the Application Map to visualize service dependencies.