Azure Operational Insights (Preview)
Jul 16, 2015
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What is Azure Operational Insights?
It’s a new cloud service
which helps IT infra teams to
handle these problems
effectively and efficiently by
storing, searching and
analyzing in the Azure
Cloud.
•Windows Server 2008 or later (Physical or Virtual)
• Ingestion Agent
•Microsoft Monitoring Agent
•Operational Insights enabled Azure VM
•System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 UR2 or Later
•Browser(IE7 or Later, Mozilla Firefox or Later)
Supported WorkloadsWindows Server SQL Server
• Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 and Windows
Server 2008 R2, including:• Active Directory
• Hyper-V host
• General operating system
• SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft
Exchange Server 2013
• Microsoft Lync Server 2013 and Lync
Server 2010
• System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine
Manager
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Enterprise
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Standard
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Workgroup
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Web
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Express
** Azure BLOB Storage **
Ingest logs data into Azure Operational insights in Ways
• Ingest logs from individual Azure VMs or Physical Machines
• Inject logs from System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM)
Pricing
FREE STANDARD PREMIUM
Price Free $1.15/GB $1.75/GB
Daily Limit 500 MB1
None None
Retention Period 7 days 1 month 12 months
Note: For customers that reach their 500MB daily limit, data analyzing will stop and resume at the start of the next day. A day is based on
UTC.
What are the data collected
8
Intelligence Pack Name Data Types
Configuration Assessment Configuration Data
Capacity Planning Performance Data
Security Assurance Windows Security Events, Firewall logs
Antimalware Configuration Data
System Update Assessment System Update Data
Log Management Windows Event Logs and/or IIS Logs
Change Tracking Software Inventory and Windows Service metadata
SQL Assessment Configuration Data
What are Intelligence Packs• Its a collection of logic, visualization and data acquisition rules.
• Free configurations that you can download and setup according to your need.
What is Workspace• A logical container which can be associated with multiple Microsoft and
Organizational accounts (e.g. [email protected])
• Users can create as many workspaces a they need (Refer the pricing slide)
Getting Started
• Navigate to https://www.opinsights.azure.com/instructions/
• Select the appropriate option