To get started, you should determine which of the key solutions and underlying capabilities you need, and understand how the various OMS cloud services facilitate their respective capabilities. For instance, if you are primarily concerned with insight and analytics capabilities for log collection and searches, and for network health monitoring, you would make use of the Log Analytics service in Azure. If, however, you are interested in protection and recovery capabilities and would like to ensure the availability of your applications and data, you would make use of the Backup and Site Recovery services in Azure. When evaluating the key solutions, note the following capabilities included with each offering:
Insight and Analytics
Automation and Control
Protection and Recovery
Security and Compliance
Log collection and search
Azure Automation Desired state configuration (DSC)
Back up to Azure and restore from Azure
Security and audit capabilities with threat intelligence
Network health monitoring and application insights
Update management and automated remediation
Site recovery to Azure and the customer's secondary datacenters
Malware threat analysis
Application and server dependency mapping (Service Map)
Change tracking
Replicate and failover to Azure, and failback from Azure
Integration with Azure Security Center for in-depth Azure services security management