{"id":13846,"date":"2024-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/post\/cloud-monitoring-and-alerting-for-microsoft-office-365_portal\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:00:01","slug":"upgrade-your-cloud-monitoring-now-with-3-microsoft-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/blog\/upgrade-your-cloud-monitoring-now-with-3-microsoft-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Your Cloud Monitoring Now With These 3 Essential Microsoft Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the cloud firmly enmeshed in all our lives, it\u2019s important to understand how to keep your cloud-based applications and services safe and secure for your customers, team members, and organization as a whole. To do that, you need to implement cloud monitoring, a critical practice for maintaining the health, performance and security of your cloud-based IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n
This practice will help your organization maintain smooth operations, detect issues early on, and efficiently allocate resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n In this article, we\u2019ll provide more information about what cloud monitoring<\/a> is, who needs to implement it, and what types of Microsoft 365 tools can help you keep up with the practice.<\/p>\n As mentioned above, cloud monitoring is the practice of maintaining your cloud-based IT infrastructure. The practice is a method of reviewing, observing and managing the overall operational workflow in a cloud-based environment.<\/p>\n Cloud monitoring techniques help your organization keep track of the performance of websites, servers, applications, and other cloud infrastructure. This way, you know when an application or service is up and running and can respond in real-time the moment a site runs into difficulties to reduce or even prevent downtime as needed. It also helps you track usage so you know both when you need more IT professionals to help with a particular tool and when another tool might need fewer resources.<\/p>\n Today, every organization needs cloud monitoring, especially as teams become increasingly distributed. IT administrators must have constant visibility into how their digital assets perform. Luckily, cloud monitoring can be done manually, with automated tools, or using a combination of the two methods to maintain a reliable and efficient cloud environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n Microsoft 365 provides a few tools that can help you with your cloud monitoring practice. There are several routes you can take, from taking over the entire task to supplementing the work you\u2019re already doing. We\u2019ll review three types.<\/p>\n Azure Monitor<\/a> is a comprehensive cloud monitoring solution from Microsoft, meant to take most of the monitoring tasks off your plate. The tool provides you with the ability to collect, analyze and respond to monitoring data from both your cloud and on-premises environments.<\/p>\n The tool also provides reporting and analytics to help you learn more about how your applications and services perform. It can also identify the issues that affect your cloud environment and the resources they rely on.<\/p>\n Azure Monitor does all of this by collecting and aggregating data from your entire cloud system, including:<\/strong><\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t only monitor Microsoft tools, either \u2013 it can also integrate with non-Microsoft tools so you\u2019re getting a holistic view of your platform.<\/p>\n Using this data, Azure Monitor can then house the data in a data store based on its three pillars of observability (plus an additional one):<\/p>\n With this data, you can then use the tool and its integrations with other Azure and Microsoft products (such as Power BI<\/a> or Azure Monitor Alerts) to gain insights, visualize the data, analyze it, and even respond.<\/p>\nWhat Is Cloud Monitoring?<\/h2>\n
Microsoft Tools for Cloud Monitoring<\/h2>\n
The Comprehensive Tool: Azure Monitor<\/h3>\n
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The Singularly Focused Tool: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps<\/h3>\n