Azure is a cloud computing hosting service created by Microsoft that allows businesses to build, store, deploy and manage applications, data and services through a global network in over 42 regions across the world. So migrating to Azure Cloud has many advantages for businesses including increase in productivity, more flexibility and reduction in IT costs. However, you may be wondering how a business can monitor azure cloud services. Let’s take a look!
Why Monitor Azure Cloud Services?
Azure Cloud Services are proactively monitored for the maintenance of critical systems to reduce downtime and increase productivity. Monitoring Azure helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on data from your cloud and onsite environments. This information helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.
How is Azure Cloud Services Monitored?
To monitor Azure Cloud Services, the ManageOne agent is installed on every device that requires monitoring and maintenance. Azure Monitoring tools help improve the efficiency of operations and resolve issues through its services. Monitoring Azure Cloud Services can detect and diagnose issues across applications and dependencies, correlate infrastructure, drill into your monitoring data for troubleshooting and deep diagnosis, support operations at scale with smart alerts and automated actions, create visualizations, and collect data from monitored resources. When choosing these tools, it is important to consider the business use case to know the type of monitoring tool required. For instance, you could determine whether you want to know the application’s performance or wish to uncover the errors in your application at the right time to rectify them.
What is ManageOne Assist?
ManageOne Assist is a comprehensive solution for companies that have fundamental needs of monitoring and management.
What Does ManageOne Do?
ManageOne performs tasks based on scheduled breaks from the ManageOne console to the agent. When the agent checks in with the console, it will receive any scheduled updates or requests since the last check-in. The agent will continuously run on each device as a service, similar to a traditional anti-virus agent, and check-in with the central ManageOne console at predetermined intervals.
Using ManageOne is a cost-effective way to perform desktop and server maintenance functions such as anti-virus updates, security patches, and service pack installations. This managed solution also offers optional Tier One Help Desk support for end-user help. It supplies the technical resources to the level that best suits your needs, whether on the premises or in private and public clouds.
What Happens to the Data Collected?
Data collected by monitoring Azure Cloud Services align into one of two basic types, metrics and logs. Metrics are numerical values that demonstrate some element of a system at a specific point in time. They are lightweight and capable of supporting near real-time situations. On the other hand, logs contain different kinds of data sorted into records with separate sets of properties for each type. Telemetry such as events and traces are then stored as logs with performance data, so everything is combined for analysis.
Conclusion
Pointivity is a member of the Microsoft CSP (Cloud Solution Provider Program), which manages the end-to-end lifecycle of your Azure Cloud. While Microsoft provides the infrastructure, Pointivity delivers personalized cloud services and a single point of contact to help along the way. In fact, Pointivity is a proven innovator in the field of Hybrid IT and cloud-based managed solutions. Pointivity provides private cloud, Azure public and hybrid cloud solutions and managed services in San Diego.
