Performance efficiency in Azure Monitor
Performance efficiency is the ability of your workload to scale to meet the demands placed on it by users in an efficient manner. Use the following information to monitor the performance of your virtual machines.
This article describes Performance efficiency for Azure Monitor as part of the Azure Well-Architected Framework. The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets that can be used to improve the quality of a workload. The framework consists of five pillars of architectural excellence:
- Reliability
- Security
- Cost Optimization
- Operational Excellence
- Performance Efficiency
Azure Monitor Logs
Design checklist
- Configure log query auditing and use Log Analytics workspace insights to identify slow and inefficient queries.
Configuration recommendations
| Recommendation | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Configure log query auditing and use Log Analytics workspace insights to identify slow and inefficient queries. | Log query auditing stores the compute time required to run each query and the time until results are returned. Log Analytics workspace insights uses this data to list potentially inefficient queries in your workspace. Consider rewriting these queries to improve their performance. Refer to Optimize log queries in Azure Monitor for guidance on optimizing your log queries. |
Virtual machines
Design checklist
- Configure data collection and alerting for monitoring performance of client workflows.
Configuration recommendations
| Recommendation | Description |
|---|---|
| Configure data collection and alerting for monitoring performance of client workflows. | Use the information at Monitor virtual machines with Monitor virtual machines with Azure Monitor: Collect data to configure client data collection measuring performance of your client workloads. Use the information at Monitor virtual machines with Monitor virtual machines with Azure Monitor: Alerts to create alert rules to be proactively notified of any potential performance issues with your client workloads. |
Containers
Design checklist
- Enable collection of Prometheus metrics for your cluster.
- Enable Container insights to track performance of your cluster.
- Enable recommended Prometheus alerts.
Configuration recommendations
| Recommendation | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Enable collection of Prometheus metrics for your cluster. | Prometheus is a cloud-native metrics solution from the Cloud Native Compute Foundation and the most common tool used for collecting and analyzing metric data from Kubernetes clusters. Enable Prometheus on your cluster with Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus if you don't already have a Prometheus environment. Use Azure Managed Grafana to analyze the Prometheus data collected. See Customize scraping of Prometheus metrics in Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus to collect additional metrics beyond the default configuration. |
| Enable Container insights to track performance of your cluster. | When you enable Container insights for your Kubernetes cluster, you can use views and workbooks to track the performance of the components of your cluster. This data may overlap with data collected by Prometheus. See Cost optimization for recommendations regarding cost. |
| Enable recommended Prometheus alerts. | Alerts in Azure Monitor proactively notify you when issues are detected. Start with a set of recommended Prometheus alert rules that detect the most common availability and performance issues with your cluster. Potentially add log search alerts using data collected by Container insights. |