Azure Monitor
In addition to monitoring your Azure workloads using OneAgent, DESK provides integration with Azure Monitor which adds cloud infrastructure monitoring to gain insight even into serverless applcation scenarios.
Capabilities
The new capabilities utilizing Azure Monitor for service insights also include integration with the Azure Resource Manager (ARM). Overall, the capabilities offered include:
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Automatic discovery of subscriptions and resources with full access control through Azure Active Directory from a single resource up to the account level.
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Support for Azure Lighthouse, which provides cross-account access using a single service-principal
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Capture of additional Azure metadata (for example, API endpoints used for service dependencies or virtual machine resource tags)
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Capture of service metrics from Azure Monitor metrics API
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Selective monitoring of Azure services using tags.
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Automatic handling of API request throttling to support monitoring for large-scale environments
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Azure overview page for easy out-of-the-box insight into a variety of Azure services with no additional effort.
