Bapi Chakraborty - Understanding Azure Monitoring: Includes IaaS and PaaS Scenarios

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Microsoft Azure is one of the preferred cloud service providers today for a large number of organizations across various industries. The increase in cloud adoption has changed the way that organizations and IT professionals look at security, monitoring, and operational activities of IT resources. Effective monitoring helps become proactive to incident response management, increase operational efficiency, and positively impact security posture. This book will act as a guide for IT professionals, consultants, architects, and Azure administrators to understand the various aspects of Monitoring Azure infrastructure and applications.

We start with a mild introduction into the ever-changing world of various industries and how they are adopting the cloud and trying to understand how to monitor the new services. This book is authored to introduce the fundamental building blocks of monitoring the Azure Monitoring constructs, capabilities, and life cycle. It then dives into various scenarios of cloud-only and hybrid application monitoring. Then we will identify and create all the possible and crucial components required to design, architect, and implement strong robust monitoring solutions.

The reader will have a chance to explore and understand the various architectural constructs of Azure monitoring capabilities and how it can be leveraged by an enterprise and used by IT professionals to respond to the growing operational and security requirements in the cloud. Also, we will explain the integration capabilities with existing Security Information and Event Management systems for organizations implementing hybrid architectures on Azure.

Bapi Chakraborty

I would like to thank my parents for their blessings and support for everything that I have achieved in my life. Their teachings and encouragement always help me to take up new challenges and not to fear any failure through the journey of life.

My heartful thanks go to my wife, Maninder, who is always by my side supporting me at every step. My two divine angels, son Shouvik and daughter Ananya, always bring new perspectives in life, understanding my unavailability and at times, asking questions that make me think how I can explain concepts in an easier way.

Shijimol, my co-author, enabled us to drive this effort together. Most importantly, she had faith in the idea and extended great collaboration without which this book may not have seen the light.

Sincere thanks to the Apress team for their support, guidance, and assistance during the entire process.

Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan

First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents for everything I have ever accomplished in my life, including this book. My mother, Ambi R., always inspired me to work toward my goals no matter how unrealistic others perceived them to be. My father, Karthikeyan M., taught me that it is equally important to slow down at times and take in life as it is. They are no longer around, but their love and blessings keep me going.

My husband, Sujai Sugathan, supported me throughout this endeavor like he always does for all my adventures. My daughter Sanjana Sujai, the sweetheart she is, gracefully put up with my absenteeism while I was busy authoring the book. I am grateful for the support I get from my sister Gigimol A.K. and family, my best friend Anjana, my in-laws, and my extended family. Extending my thanks to Bapi, for being such a wonderful colleague and co-author. This book is his brainchild, and I am honored that he gave me an opportunity to contribute and collaborate. I am thankful to the mentors in my professional life there are too many to list for their constant support and encouragement. Last but not least, I would like to thank the entire team at Apress for their support during the publishing process.