Summary

This chapter has covered the details of the different components that work together inside Azure Monitor to collect, transform, and store data from various sources. We outlined how Azure Monitor collects data from various sources through different supported destinations and that information is not collected only from the resources created by the user but not also by the platform itself, such as Azure subscription activity, or resource operations within subscriptions.

We also explained how Azure Monitor is evolving its original ingestion architecture into a new ETL-like data collection pipeline. You learned how this new pipeline unifies data source destinations, allows for initial transformation before ingestion, simplifies the configuration process across data sources, and eases integration with infrastructure management solutions built on the infrastructure-as-code paradigm.

Finally, we detailed how to use DCRs to define how a particular scenario collects data and performs...