How do I log Azure VM?

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To view your traces as a list, the easiest method is to use the Azure portal.

Open the Azure portal in a web browser.
Filter the list of resource by the resource group, rg-demo-vm-eastus .
Select the demoWebAppMonitor resource.
Select the Monitoring section’s Logs item.

How do I enable guest metrics on my Azure VM?

Enable OS Guest Diagnostic Metrics on an Existing VM

In Azure, navigate to Virtual machines and select the virtual machine to configure.
Navigate to Diagnostic settings under Monitoring.
Choose an existing Diagnostic storage account or create a new one.
Click Enable guest-level monitoring.

How long is metrics data stored for?

Retention of metrics For most resources in Azure, platform metrics are stored for 93 days. There are some exceptions: Classic guest OS metrics: These are performance counters collected by the Windows diagnostic extension or the Linux diagnostic extension and routed to an Azure storage account.

How do I send VM logs to Log Analytics?

Enable the VM extension in the Azure portal

Sign into the Azure portal.
Select Browse on the left side of the portal, and then go to Log Analytics (OMS) and select it.
In your list of Log Analytics workspaces, select the one that you want to use with the Azure VM.
Under Log analytics management, select Virtual machines.

How do I enable memory metrics in Azure?

Steps For Existing Windows VMs:

Click on a Windows VM.
Select Diagnostics settings from the Azure UI blade.
Under the Overview tab: Pick a Storage account: Select your storage account so that the metrics stats can be stored. Click on ‘Enable guest level monitoring’ and wait for the process to complete.

What is the difference between logs and metrics?

While logs are about a specific event, metrics are a measurement at a point in time for the system. This unit of measure can have the value, timestamp, and identifier of what that value applies to (like a source or a tag).

What is Log Analytics gateway?

The Log Analytics gateway is an HTTP forward proxy that supports HTTP tunneling using the HTTP CONNECT command. This gateway sends data to Azure Automation and a Log Analytics workspace in Azure Monitor on behalf of the computers that cannot directly connect to the internet.

How do I connect to Log Analytics workspace?

In the Azure portal, enter Log Analytics in the search box. As you begin typing, the list filters based on your input. Select Log Analytics workspaces. Select Add.

What does Log Analytics do?

Log Analytics is a tool in the Azure portal to edit and run log queries from data collected by Azure Monitor logs and interactively analyze their results. You can use Log Analytics queries to retrieve records that match particular criteria, identify trends, analyze patterns, and provide various insights into your data.

What is Azure Log Analytics used for?

How do I check my VM memory usage?

Monitoring Memory Usage

Connect to a vCenter Server instance with the vSphere Client.
Navigate to the Hosts And Clusters inventory view.
In the inventory tree, click an ESX/ESXi host.
Click the Performance tab, and switch to Advanced view.
Click the Chart Options link.

What is OS guest diagnostics Azure?

Azure Diagnostics extension is an agent in Azure Monitor that collects monitoring data from the guest operating system of Azure compute resources including virtual machines.

What are metrics logs and traces?

Traces and metrics are an abstraction built on top of logs that pre-process and encode information along two orthogonal axes, one being request-centric (trace), the other being system-centric (metric).

What metrics does Microsoft Azure provide for guest OS?

Microsoft Azure provides a set of standard host-level metrics. Guest OS metrics are not available by default. You can use guest-level monitoring to collect metrics of your guest virtual machines. The metrics are useful for investigating the capacity-related issues that might occur in your Azure environment.

How do I monitor my Azure guest virtual machines for Capacity optimization?

You can use guest-level monitoring to collect metrics of your guest virtual machines. The metrics are useful for investigating the capacity-related issues that might occur in your Azure environment. When you run the Microsoft Azure API ETL, these metrics are imported into the TrueSight Capacity Optimization database. Log in to the Azure portal.

How do I monitor the performance of a guest operating system?

To collect metrics from the guest operating system of the virtual machine, though, you must install an agent. When you enable VM insights, the Log Analytics agent is installed and starts sending performance data to Azure Monitor Logs, which then enables the Performance and Map views.

What is the meaning of metrics?

Metrics are numerical values that describe some aspect of a system at a particular point in time. Although platform metrics for the virtual machine host are collected automatically, you must install the Azure Monitor agent to collect guest metrics.

How do I log Azure VM?