Monitors VM performance in Azure Monitor and offers a dependency Map, though Map and the Dependency agent are deprecated and retire on 30 June 2028. Change auditing and NSG rule evaluation are outside its remit.
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Terms in this definition
- Performance
Routing method in Traffic Manager that directs users to whichever endpoint offers the lowest latency.
- Azure Monitor
Observability platform for Azure that brings together metrics, logs and traces from both Azure and hybrid resources so they can be analysed and alerted on.
- Dependency agent
Retiring 30 June 2028 together with the Map feature it supplies in VM insights; both are already deprecated.
- Retire
Strips corporate data, managed apps and MDM profiles from a device while keeping personal data, which is the key difference from a Wipe in Intune.
- Auditing
Azure SQL capability that sends database audit logs to Log Analytics, Event Hubs or a storage account; that account is allowed to be in a different region.
- Default security rules
Built-in NSG rules at priorities 65000-65500: AllowVnetInBound, AllowAzureLoadBalancerInBound and DenyAllInBound, plus AllowVnetOutBound, AllowInternetOutBound and DenyAllOutBound. Removal is impossible; custom rules at 100-4096 take precedence.
Related terms
- InsightsMetrics
Where VM insights stores its performance data in Log Analytics.
- Log Analytics workspace
Where Azure Monitor keeps log data for querying with KQL. Microsoft Sentinel, VM insights and workspace-based Application Insights all depend on one.