How to Deploy and Configure Azure Monitor

Source: Dev.to

Prepare Your Azure Environment

1. Create a resource group

   • Search Resource Groups → Create
   • Name: rg-alpha
   • Region: East US
   • Click Review + create → Create

   This group will hold all the resources Azure Monitor will observe.

Create a Security Group (Optional – used in the lab)

1. Search Azure Active Directory / Entra ID → Groups → New group
2. Group type: Security
3. Name: App Log Examiners
4. Click Create

Deploy Virtual Machines to Monitor

Deploy Windows VM (WS‑VM1)

1. Search Virtual Machines → Create

2. Basics

   • Name: WS-VM1
   • Region: East US
   • Image: Windows Server 2022 Datacenter
   • Size: Standard_D4s_v3
   • Admin username: prime
   • Password: your secure password
   • Inbound port: RDP (3389)

3. Click Create and wait for deployment.

4. After deployment, select Go to resource → Networking.

   • Edit the default RDP rule: set Source to My IP address and Save.
   • Add an inbound rule:
     • Source: Any
     • Destination port ranges: 310
     • Protocol: TCP
     • Action: Allow
     • Name: AllowAnyHTTPInbound

5. Connect via RDP:

   • Choose Connect → Native RDP → Download RDP file.
   • In the Windows Security dialog, select More choices → Use a different account.
   • Username: .\prime
   • Password: your secure password → OK.

6. Inside the VM, open Windows PowerShell (Admin) and run:

   Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server -IncludeAllSubFeature -IncludeManagementTools
   cd C:\inetpub\wwwroot
   Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure-Samples/html-docs-hello-world/master/index.html -OutFile index.html

Deploy Linux VM (Linux‑VM2)

1. Search Virtual Machines → Create
2. Basics
   • Name: Linux-VM2
   • Resource group: rg-alpha
   • Availability options: No infrastructure redundancy required
   • Image: Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS
   • Size: Standard_D2s_v3
   • Architecture: x64
   • Username: prime
   • Password: your secure password
3. Click Review + create → Create.
4. After deployment, open the VM’s Extensions + Applications under Settings.
5. Add the Network Watcher Agent for Linux extension: Add → Next → Review + create → Create.

Deploy a Web App with an SQL Database

1. Open the template repository.
2. Click Deploy to Azure.
3. Sign in with an account that has Global Administrator privileges if prompted.
4. On the Basics page, select Edit template.
5. In the editor, delete lines 158‑174 (inclusive) and remove the trailing comma on line 157. Click Save.
6. Provide the required parameters on the Basics page and click Next.
7. Review the configuration and click Create.
8. After deployment completes, select Go to resource group to view the newly created web app and SQL database.