Learn about Azure Monitor – Insights
This tutorial provide a brief description of the insights that are currently available in Azure Monitor. Insights provide a customized monitoring experience for particular applications and services. They are used to store data in the Azure Monitor data platform and leverage other Azure Monitor features for analysis and alerting but may collect additional data and provide a unique user experience in the Azure portal. You can Access insights from the Insights section of the Azure Monitor menu in the Azure portal.
Application Insights
Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. Use it to monitor your live web application. It works for applications on a wide variety of platforms including .NET, Node.js and Java EE, hosted on-premises, hybrid, or any public cloud. It also integrates with your DevOps process and has connection points to a variety of development tools.
Azure Monitor for Containers
Azure Monitor for containers monitors the performance of container workloads deployed to either Azure Container Instances or managed Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Monitoring your containers is critical, especially when you’re running a production cluster, at scale, with multiple applications.
Also, Azure Monitor for Resource Groups
Azure Monitor for resource groups helps to triage and diagnose any problems your individual resources encounter, while offering context as to the health and performance of the resource group as a whole.
Furthermore, Azure Monitor for VMs
Azure Monitor for VMs monitors your Azure virtual machines (VM) and virtual machine scale sets at scale. It analyzes the performance and health of your Windows and Linux VMs, and monitors their processes and dependencies on other resources and external processes.
Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Monitor for Networks provides a comprehensive view of health and metrics for all your network resource. The advanced search capability helps you identify resource dependencies, enabling scenarios like identifying resource that are hosting your website, by simply searching for your website name.
Reference documentation – Overview of Insights in Azure Monitor