Monitoring is the act of collecting and analyzing data to determine the performance, health, and availability of your business applications, and the resources on which they depend. An effective monitoring strategy helps you focus on the health of your application. It also helps you increase your uptime by proactively notifying you of critical issues, so that you can resolve them before they become problems.

Monitoring and analytics on Azure has three specific areas of focus:

• Core monitoring
• Deep infrastructure monitoring
• Deep application monitoring