[observation] One of the most important Azure observability links is: aka.ms/azureservice...
- list of service issues,
- planned maintenances,
- health & security advisories,
- resource health for your individual resources,
- history
- alerts
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[observation] Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL helps you discover and mitigate potential database vulnerabilities and alerts you to anomalous activities that might indicate a threat to your databases:
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
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[observation] The easiest way to start using Azure Advisor is to setup a Recommendation digest, sending you opportunities weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly:
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
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[observation] The single most unpopular (for unknown to me reasons) for Azure SQL observability resource is Azure Advisor - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
Providing recommendations on Reliability, Security, Performance, Cost & Operation Excellence ... for free!
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Azure SQL PaaS solutions have 2 major parts that needs to be monitored - Azure Platform side & VM + SQL Server process side.
For the start, use Azure Monitor for the Azure Platform side & Database Watcher or any other great partner monitoring solutions.
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[observation] Priority of the notifications in Azure:
Critical: Service Health (especially Resource Health)
Important to Informational: Azure Advisor (think security/resilience/performance).
Tip: always monitor the Activity Log for notifications.
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[observation] Microsoft Entra monitoring & health provides insights on:
•Audit Logs
•Sign-in Logs
•Provisioning Logs
•Identity Protection
•Application activities
•Entra Workbooks
•Entra Recommendations
•Entra Health
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/...
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[observation]
Bonus: It allows you to setup alerts on each of the impacted categories.
Plus, 3 of the current Preview Workbooks allow you to:
- Track the reliability of your applications
- Track service retirements
- Identify cost optimization opportunities
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[observation] The image below provides a list with different SQL Server process side sources and their availability in different Azure SQL offers (SQL VM, SQL MI & SQL DB)
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[observation] Azure Monitor (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...) & Database Watcher [in preview] (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...) together provide a wide view over Azure SQL PaaS offers.
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[observation] Activity Log is a single place where so many notification land - even for those affecting Azure SQL PaaS service that come from Azure Service Health, Azure Advisor or Azure Entra ID:

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

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