Monitoring with Workbooks

Azure Monitor is great at exposing the details of your running resources and enabling you to create meaningful views of your data. One of the tools that assist with this is workbooks. In this exercise, you will create a workbook for your VM and visual CPU usage. Follow these steps to continue:

1. Navigate to your BCDRVM1 resource.
2. On the left menu pane, under the Monitoring context, click Workbooks.
3. You will notice that your VM needs to be onboarded to Azure Monitors for VM. Click the Onboard button.

Figure 21.53: Onboard to Azure Monitors for VM

4. If you are presented with another screen to activate monitoring, click the Enable button.
5. On the Monitoring Configuration window that appears, click Create new under the Data collection rule option.
6. Configure your rule as follows:
   • Data collection rule name: WorkbookDCR
   • Enable guest performance: Checked
   • Enable processes and dependencies (Map): Checked
   • Subscription...