Whether you are taking your first steps into the plethora of Azure services or you are a proven warrior, there is one service that is there to guide you and your application(s) to the next level. Azure Monitor allows you to collect, analyze, and act on telemetry from both your cloud and on-premises environment(s) and application(s).

After introducing Azure Monitor service and its basic moving parts, the focus of this session will teach you how to get started in querying your application logging data stored within. In order to do this efficiently, we will introduce the Kusto Query Language (KQL).

This language is designed to be easy to read and author. However, getting started with any new language is almost always easier by example, so that's where we will begin.

After getting a feel for KQL, we will dive into some more advanced scenarios, create a minor dashboard on a couple of services and wrap up by setting alerts based on results from KQL queries.