For section 1 of this course we have four priorities: System monitoring, application monitoring, log monitoring, and alerting. System monitoring refers to monitoring of cloud resources and hardware with a focus on things like CPU, memory, and network. Application monitoring refers to instrumentation of your own service code - anything you deploy on top of your servers. Log monitoring, as you can probably guess, is focused on analyzing logs generated by your system. Finally alerting is the process by which we automate a variety of alarms triggered by your application getting into an unhealthy state. The fourth priority, alerting, is made possible by the first three - system and application monitoring along with log analysis.

For system monitoring you will need to learn about the Azure Monitor service. For logging you will get acquainted with Azure Log Analytics. For application monitoring Azure offers its Application Insights service, which we will also be using for alerting in the last part of the section. So if you’re ready, we’ll get started now in the next lesson with an introduction to Azure Monitor.