What is Windows Azure equivalent of Amazon CloudWatch?

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The developers can monitor the resource availability of their Amazon EC2 by Amazon CloudWatch. Azure provides decent amount of visibility on its dashboards and via its own alerting system. It is good enough to get started and maintain / monitor basic systems. Once you get more sophisticated or have needs that outgrow Azure’s native monitoring / dashboard capabilities, there are a few products to be considered. Laitkor provides Azure development and can help you at any point of time.

Windows Azure equivalent of Amazon CloudWatch

1.    Recently, CloudMonix released which replaces a popular Azure-specific monitoring service AzureWatch. It is SaaS based, and does monitoring of most Azure platform and services. It also has very sophisticated autoscaling and automation engines.

2.    There are many popular and quite expensive tools like New Relic and AppDynamic. They concentrate on APM monitoring and are not Azure specific. They won’t tell you if your Azure Service Bus is down or a storage queue is not getting depleted, but they provide /real /nice view to help with diagnostic of an issue that has occurred in your app.

3.    You can also utilize Azure Diagnostic to monitor the resources of your roles and then use a tool like Azure Diagnostic Manager to visualize the output.

4.    There are several data sources beyond CloudWatch for Amazon. Consider these features on Azure:

•    Trace switches: Allows for traces of transactions to be taken off the Azure apps
•    Azure Diagnostic: Log data for Azure apps
•    Performance Counters: Essentially like WMI for Azure.

5.    You can store these features within the Azure storage in your instance. This of course is mostly based on PaaS role. If you are using IaaS roles, you have additional metrics which can be collected with APM agents or infrastructure monitoring agents. The most popular tools on Azure for APM are AppDynamics and New Relic.

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