Choose the best monitoring service for visibility, insight, and outage mitigation
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Azure Advisor
The recommendation service includes suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss. The recommendations are available via the Azure portal and the API, and you can set up notifications to alert you to new recommendations.
- Reliability: Used to ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications.
- Security: Used to detect threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to security breaches.
- Performance: Used to improve the speed of your applications.
- Cost: Used to optimize and reduce your overall Azure spending.
- Operational Excellence: Used to help you achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment best practices.
Azure Monitor
Platform for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and potentially taking action based on the metric and logging data from your entire Azure and on-premises environment.
Additionally, you can use the data to help you react to critical events in real time, through alerts delivered to teams via SMS, email, and so on. Or you can use thresholds to trigger autoscaling functionality to scale up or down to meet the demand.
Azure Service Health
Provides a personalized view of the health of the Azure services, regions, and resources you rely on.
- Service issues are problems in Azure, such as outages, that affect you right now. You can drill down to the affected services, regions, updates from your engineering teams, and find ways to share and track the latest information.
- Planned maintenance events can affect your availability. You can drill down to the affected services, regions, and details to show how an event will affect you and what you need to do. Most of these events occur without any impact to you and aren’t shown here. In the rare case that a reboot is required, Service Health allows you to choose when to perform the maintenance to minimize the downtime.
- Health advisories are issues that require you to act to avoid service interruption, including service retirements and breaking changes. Health advisories are announced far in advance to allow you to plan.