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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’m going to show you how to quickly set up an OpInsights workspace in your Azure subscription, along with steps on how to deploy the OMS agent to virtual machines.
Azure Operational Insights utilizes the cloud to store and index large amounts of data collected from on-premise and cloud servers, and provides a deep insight into operations, allowing you to find and fix issues quickly, predict needs for future growth, and better adhere to best practice knowledge collected by Microsoft. For more information on OpInsights, see What is Azure Operational Insights? on the Petri IT Knowledgebase.
Before starting, you’ll need to have an Azure subscription. If you’re not already signed up, you can register for a free trial here.
The pricing tiers offer different daily limits on data collection in GBs and retention periods. For the latest information on pricing, see the Azure Operational Insights website.
The portal will switch to the OpInsights pane, and the status of the workspace changed to Active when it’s ready to use. It’s worth noting that you can create one or more workspaces in your Azure subscription.
Configure a new Azure Operational Insights workspace (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Now that we have a workspace configured, OpInsights can be enabled for our Azure VMs.
Enable Operational Insights in Azure virtual machines (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Installation will take a few minutes, and you can see the status of the operation by clicking the progress bar icon in the bottom right corner of the management portal window. You may need to refresh the browser window to update the status in the OpInsights pane of the management portal. To access the OpInsights dashboard, click the MANAGE icon at the bottom of the Azure management portal window.
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