Azure
Microsoft's cloud platform for building, deploying, and managing applications.
Definition
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications through Microsoft-managed data centers globally. Launched in February 2010, Azure is the second-largest cloud provider worldwide.
In depth
Azure provides services spanning virtual machines, Kubernetes (AKS), serverless functions (Azure Functions), managed databases, and AI services. Monitoring Azure environments involves collecting metrics from Azure Monitor, activity logs, and application insights. obseria.io's Azure integration unifies these signals with application-level telemetry, giving engineers a single pane of glass across multi-cloud and hybrid deployments. Key metrics to monitor include VM CPU/memory, AKS node health, Function execution counts, and Cosmos DB throughput.
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