In this Azure article, we will discuss the lists of tools you can use to monitor Azure SQL Managed Instance and the important factors you need to consider.
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Azure SQL Managed Instance Monitoring
Monitoring your Azure SQL-managed instance is quite important to make it run smoothly in production. So that in case you come to know about any critical issue, you can act on that immediately to make sure it won’t affect your business.
There are a number of tools available that can be used for monitoring your Azure SQL-managed instance.
But, before considering the tool to monitor your Azure SQL-managed instance, you should consider a few factors as mentioned below.
- Cost of the Tool
- What is the skill set required to run that tool
- How frequently it can run?
- How capable the tool is with respect to alerting? etc.
Below is the list of a few key tools that you can consider to monitor your Azure SQL-managed instance based on your requirement
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Insights (Preview)
- Azure SQL Analytics (Preview)
- Query Store
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