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This post will show you how to deploy an Azure Log Analytics workspace so that you can prepare the foundation of monitoring machines and services both on-premises, in (any) the cloud, and in Azure.
All management and monitoring is done within an OMS workspace, which you will need to create. Open the Azure Portal, click More Services, enter Log Analytics (OMS), and click Add. In the new OMS Workspace blade you will need to do the following:
Create a new Azure OMS Log Analytics workspace [Image Credit]
Your search for “OMS pricing” might also turn up a page that describes the pricing of the OMS add-on for System Center, which is a bundle of discounted Azure pricing.
For testing, proof of concept, and training, start with the Free tier. As your monitoring needs grow, you will start to gather more than 500MB of data per day. At that point, monitoring will stop until the next day starts and your monitoring resets to 0MB for that day. You can monitor the implementation to determine when you will need to upgrade to the Standard tier.
Once your workspace is created, browse into the object in the Portal. In this blade, you can see how many Azure storage account logs and virtual machines are being monitored by OMS. You can also see details for your tier, such as how much of the Free tier 500MB per day is available for the current day.
If you want to start monitoring, click Settings > Quick Create. Here you will find shortcuts to:
Quickly get started with OMS [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
The default Azure OMS portal [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
A configured Azure OMS Portal [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
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