Microsoft Azure Windows Monitoring Agents

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform which helps to build solutions to meet business goals. It supports infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) computing services. It also supports advanced computing services like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and IoT. Azure allows you to build, manage and deploy the application on a global network.

Here in this article, we will talk about the most widely used and available Microsoft azure virtual machine monitoring agents. It also supports for public cloud services as well as private cloud services. Using these monitoring agents you or your DevOps team members can easily analyze the logs using Azure Monitor and also can store log data sources to Log Analytics for with a certain retention time to analyze the logs for a long period of time. You can also use any supported rest API to capture the log data as well if needed.

The below following are the Microsoft Azure Windows Monitoring Agents:

1. Agent for Windows Server Monitoring:

Windows Server monitoring provides in-depth data source information on your azure virtual machine’s performance, along with a wide range of other supporting features like process utilization, memory utilization, disk usage, network data transfer, etc.

2. APM Insight .NET Agent:

APM Insight is the ideal solution to all your web application monitoring needs on the Azure cloud. Install APM Insight .NET agent and rest azure will automatically track the performance of your project web applications and when they occur.

3. Application Insights Agent:

Monitor your project ASP.NET Applications hosted on IIS without touching a line of code. Azure Monitor’s Application Insights empowers your and your project team to track and monitor your applications about deployments, installs, updates, incidents, and also improvements. Microsoft Azure Community States that currently Profiler and Snapshot debugger do not deploy with the Application Insights Agent.

4. Dynatrace One Agent:

Dynatrace is a powerful monitoring agent that provides full-stack application performance monitoring using advanced Artificial Intelligence technology. This agent helps DevOps teams to resolve the problems faster and to support at operational decisions. Dynatrace One Agent install is simple and faster. Once installed the agent tool provides immediate information about the application, infrastructure and service problems. Dynatrace agent tool analyses how application services interact and visualizes the impact on overall application performance.