Hello, and welcome back. In this brief demonstration. I'm going to walk you through the process of enabling Azure monitor for VMs for a single virtual machine.

On the screen here you can see I'm logged into my Azure portal, and I'm in my resource group that I created, that's called VMStuff. And in VMStuff, I have a virtual machine called MyVM. What we're going to do here is enable monitoring for this virtual machine. And it's actually a pretty, straightforward process.

From my VMStuff resource group, what I'll do here is select MyVM, and at this point I'm at the overview page for the virtual machine. To enable Azure Monitor for VMs, I simply scroll down on the left here, to the monitoring section, and under monitoring there's an option here for insights.

So we're going to go ahead and select insights. If the VM is not yet enabled for Azure monitor, you'll get this screen here, this get more visibility screen, and you'll see the blue button here to enable the VM. So what we'll do here to enable it is click the enable button, and then what happens is it prompts me for a log analytics workspace.

We can see that it's telling me here that the VM isn't currently connected to any workspace, and that I need to select an existing one. It defaults here to my lab subscription, where I'm working, and then I have an option in this dropdown, to select an existing log analytics workspace.

Now, if I didn't have a log analytics workspace available, I'd have to create one for this. Since we already have a default workspace, we'll use the one that it chose for us. And then from here we can simply click enable. And what this does is deploys insights. And once this is done, our virtual machine here will be enabled for Azure Monitor for VMs.

So let's let Azure do its thing here. And this takes a few minutes. And then once this is done, I'll show you what it looks like. We can see that our deployment has succeeded here, and we'll close this. And it's telling us that monitoring data is being collected and routed to insights.

So this can take up to 10 minutes. So what I'm going to do is pause this video, and we'll come back when this data has arrived. So hang tight. Welcome back, so our insights deployment has completed. And now if we look at the insights page under monitoring for our VM, we have two options, we have performance and we have map.

The map option allows us to discover application dependencies, while the performance tab here allows us to look at overall utilization of the VM, and its performance.

From the performance tab here, we can take a look at our logical disk performance, information on CPU utilization, Ram, IOPS, disk throughput, and all kinds of other data about our virtual machine. And if we bounce back out to the map tab here, we can see the different processes that are running on the VM, and we can see where the ports are in use for those different processes.

So this tab here, this map tab provides you with a way to view dependencies for the VM, while the performance tab allows you to view the performance of your virtual machine.