New Training: Instrument Solutions in Microsoft Azure to Support Monitoring and Logging

In this 8-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Trevor Sullivan covers Azure Monitor and Application Insights. Learn how to gather metrics and query application logs.

Learn Azure with one of these courses:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

• Azure Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing

This training includes:

• 8 videos

• 56 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Introduction to Performance Monitoring and Instrumentation in Microsoft Azure

• Choosing a Software Agent to Monitor IT Infrastructure

• Monitoring On-premises Virtual Machines with Azure Log Analytics

• Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Monitor Agent

• Visualizing Metrics and Logs from Azure Dashboard

• Creating Workbooks to Visualize Metrics and Logs

• Creating Notification Alerts for Critical Events in Azure Monitor

• Call to Action

Discover 7 reasons why Microsoft Azure certification is a must-have in 2025 to accelerate your IT career.

How to Monitor Azure Hybrid-Cloud Environments

Over the past decade, there has been a massive shift in organizations adopting a public cloud presence. One of the most uniquely interesting aspects of this cloud adoption is that most organizations opt to benefit from a hybrid cloud model rather than running a complete cloud production environment. This hybrid cloud model simply consumes resources on-premises as well as in the cloud or the resources of multiple cloud environments.

Importantly, as organizations adopt this hybrid-cloud model, they are also looking for cohesity in monitoring and managing their environment. One of the prominent ways to achieve monitoring in an Azure environment that spans into an on-premises environment is through the use of the Azure Monitor Agents. Azure Monitor Agents can be deployed on physical machines residing on-prem and gather the rich monitoring and analytics Azure Monitor provides for cloud-native workloads.