Servers running Windows or Linux outside Azure that become Azure resources once the Azure Connected Machine agent is installed; data collection rules can then drive the Azure Monitor agent on them.
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Terms in this definition
- LAMP
Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (Perl and Python also fill the P): a widely used open-source stack for web applications whose database is frequently Azure Database for MySQL.
- Azure Connected Machine agent
Agent from Azure Arc installed on servers outside Azure. Once a server is Arc-enabled this way, services such as Defender for Cloud can push extensions to it, though the agent doesn't gather VM logs itself.
- Azure Monitor agent
Agent now used to collect logs from a machine's guest OS, driven by data collection rules; it took over from the Log Analytics agent (MMA).
Related terms
- Azure Connected Machine Resource Administrator
Gives full control over Azure Arc-enabled servers and their extensions, including onboarding them again, which covers rolling out the Azure Monitor Agent to those machines. It is one of the built-in Azure roles.
- Network Watcher Agent extension
Packet capture and Connection Monitor both depend on this extension, named
AzureNetworkWatcherExtension. Only Azure VMs and Azure Arc-enabled servers can run it.