Microsoft Azure Insights: Monitoring Azure VM health; Limiting Azure App Permissions to particular mailboxes; Making sense of Domain Controller Monitoring

Microsoft pros discuss monitoring Azure VM health, limiting Azure App Permissions to particular mailboxes, and try to make sense of Domain Controller Monitoring.

Monitoring Azure VM health

Balasubramaniam Murugesan, writing on the Serverless360 blog, explored how to monitor the health of Azure VMs. Users can install an agent to keep track of OS performance. VM Insights is a key capability of Azure Monitor for this purpose.

Murugesan recommended creating a Log Analytics workspace, enabling monitoring, viewing performance, processing, dependencies, and machine details. The preview Guest Health Monitor capability sends out a warning when a parameter strays out of bounds. Unfortunately, this is only a short-term offering and Microsoft is migrating to Monitor log alerts in its place. He wrote:

Before VM insights guest health is removed, you should create alert rules to take its place. Charges based on the Azure Monitor log alert rates will apply when switching to log alerts… After retirement, the Guest VM Health status and the health tab in VM insights won’t be accessible. Follow these instructions to remove the Virtual Machines from the guest health (preview) section of VM insights.

Limiting Azure App Permissions to particular mailboxes

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