Microsoft Azure’s recently launched new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) feature the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor. These new VMs are engineered to efficiently run horizontally scalable workloads such as web servers, application servers, and open source databases. They deliver excellent price-performance and represent an important addition to Microsoft Azure’s portfolio of instance types.
Elastic Observability can give you a holistic view of your cloud resources as you migrate your workloads to the new Arm architecture. Elastic’s native Azure Integration for Activity Logs, VM and Container Metrics along with Elastic APM allows you to collect logs, metrics, and traces for the Azure platform and applications running on it. Once deployed, you can easily compare the performance between Arm-and x86-based architectures. It also allows you to:
- Track resource usage and application performance
- Compare costs between instance groups
- Alert upon system failures
- Monitor and optimize SQL DB deployments
Deploy the Elastic Agent and start observing your Azure environment
Data ingest is a critical — and often time-consuming — piece of observability workflows. How quickly can you visualize and get key insights from this data? Now multiply this by the thousands of components — hosts, containers, applications, and more — in your environment, and visibility into the operational aspects such as deployment, configuration, and upgrades, become just as critical.
It all starts by deploying our Elastic Agent — a single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host. It can also protect hosts from security threats, query data from operating systems, forward data from remote services or hardware, and more.
Deploying our Elastic Agent can be done with a few clicks in seconds:
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