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Azure Monitor

Metrics, logs, alerts across Azure.

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Overview

Azure Monitor includes Metrics, Log Analytics (KQL), Alerts, Action Groups and Workbooks.

When to use it

  • Synthetic tests + SLO tracking
  • Alerting on canary regressions

Setup

  1. Enable diagnostic settings → Log Analytics workspace.
  2. Create alert rules + action groups.

How to use

KQL
AppRequests
| where Success == false
| summarize fail=count() by bin(TimeGenerated,5m), Url
| where fail > 10

QA use cases

  • Burn-rate alerts that auto-rollback canary deployments.