Monitoring, telemetry and alerting is something that every production-grade service needs to run effectively and with minimal downtime. Azure Monitor combines logging, metrics and alerting into one tool to help you gain the insights you need into your platform, no matter if it's running in a micro-service or monolithic architecture. I'm going to show you how to use Azure Monitor and how to make the most of it, in an extensible manner. Last but not least, I will also show you the true power of the Azure Monitor query language (Kusto), for when you want to truly unleash the power of Azure Monitor and hook it up to external tools or APIs.

This session is suited to anyone with an interest in DevOps and alerting/monitoring in production systems. Although it focuses on Azure Monitor as the presentation layer it will demonstrate a pattern in .NET that can be used to hook up telemetry and tracing in an extensible manner. The talk is focused on service based web applications but the same techniques can easily be applied to all manner of applications, be it mobile or desktop. The session is mostly demo based with short introductions on the main features of Azure Monitor. In the end an example of a full-blown implementation along with it's benefits is demonstrated to give a sense of excitement about the possibilities with a full integration. The session is around 1 hour long.