Question

Your team runs 40 Azure VMs across two subscriptions. Operations needs a single view showing per-VM CPU, memory, and disk performance plus a visual map of process-level TCP connections between the VMs to troubleshoot latency between an app tier and a database tier. You must enable this with the least ongoing agent management overhead and ensure telemetry lands in a specific Log Analytics workspace. What should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Enable VM Insights on the VMs using the Azure Monitor Agent with a Data Collection Rule that includes the VM Insights performance counters and the dependency (Map) data source, targeting the designated Log Analytics workspace.

Answer

Install the legacy Log Analytics (MMA) agent on each VM and manually add the Service Map solution to the workspace, then configure performance counters in the workspace Advanced settings.

Answer

Enable Azure Monitor metric alerts on each VM's platform metrics and build an Azure Workbook that queries the InsightsMetrics table for connection data.

Answer

Deploy Container Insights to the VMs and use the ContainerLog table to correlate process-level network dependencies between the app and database tiers.