What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Microsoft Operations Management Suite, provides an overview of OMS and its underlying services and shows you how to onboard to OMS services.

Chapter 2, Searching and Analyzing OMS Data, shows you how to review, search, and analyze collected data using the powerful new Azure Log Analytics query language.

Chapter 3, Managing Alerts in OMS, shows you how to use OMS for alert and event management and view and correlate alerts from various connected sources, such as SCOM, Nagios, and Zabbix. You will also learn how to use and configure alert actions in Log Analytics.

Chapter 4, Protecting and Recovering Data with OMS, provides an overview of the data protection and recovery capabilities of OMS and shows you how to leverage the various features of Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (ASR) as part of your disaster recovery and business continuity strategy.

Chapter 5, Configuration Management and Automation with OMS, shows you how to leverage the Azure Automation capabilities for inventory and change tracking, update management, process automation, and desired state configuration.

Chapter 6, Working with Security and Compliance in OMS, provides an overview of the Security and Compliance service in OMS and shows you how to assess your security state across various security domains, audit security-related events across your environment, identify and remediate security gaps within your environment, and remain compliant with various security standards.

Chapter 7, Using Wire Data 2.0 and Service Map, shows you how to unlock insights into your network traffic and understand how application components relate to one another and any network dependencies.

Chapter 8, Exploring Other Management Solutions, provides an overview of other management solutions and their various capabilities, shows you how to install and configure a variety of solutions, and perform assessments of various workloads within your environment.

Chapter 9, Cross-Platform Management with OMS, shows you how to manage Linux and other non-Windows workloads with OMS and also shows you how to work with collected data, and correlate data from other monitoring solutions to unlock insights and manage your cross-platform workloads wherever they might reside.