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Monitoring your resources is vital to being able to detect issues or opportunities for performance improvements. When it comes to Azure, the monitoring story can be a bit confusing, with multiple different services seeming to offer similar or related solutions. In particular, there is often confusion between two services: Azure Monitor and Log Analytics (part of the OMS suite). We’re going to take a look at these two services and when you would use them.

Service Descriptions

Let’s start by taking a look at what these services actually do.

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