Azure Operational Insights is a Cloud based machine data collection, storage, analysis service fully managed and serviced by microsoft. Operational Insights uses data from servers in your on-premise or cloud infrastructure. You can collect machine data from the following sources: Operations Manager agents Computers connected directly to Operational Insights Virtual machine diagnostic data in Azure Storage services After data is collected, it is sent to the Operational Insights service.

1. Azure Operational
Insights (Preview)

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3. What is Azure Operational Insights?
It’s a new cloud service
which helps IT infra teams to
handle these problems
effectively and efficiently by
storing, searching and
analyzing in the Azure
Cloud.

4. •Windows Server 2008 or later (Physical or Virtual)
•Ingestion Agent
•Microsoft Monitoring Agent
•Operational Insights enabled Azure VM
•System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 UR2 or
Later
•Browser(IE7 or Later, Mozilla Firefox or Later)

5. Supported Workloads
Windows Server SQL Server
• Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 and Windows
Server 2008 R2, including:
• Active Directory
• Hyper-V host
• General operating system
• SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft
Exchange Server 2013
• Microsoft Lync Server 2013 and Lync
Server 2010
• System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine
Manager
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Enterprise
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Standard
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Workgroup
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Web
• SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Express
** Azure BLOB Storage **

6. Ingest logs data into
Azure Operational insights
in Ways
• Ingest logs from
individual Azure VMs or
Physical Machines
• Inject logs from System
Centre Operations
Manager (SCOM)

7. Pricing
FREE STANDARD PREMIUM
Price Free $1.15/GB $1.75/GB
Daily Limit 500 MB
1
None None
Retention Period 7 days 1 month 12 months
Note: For customers that reach their 500MB daily limit, data analyzing will stop and resume at the start of the next day. A day is based on
UTC.

8. What are the data collected
8
Intelligence Pack Name Data Types
Configuration Assessment Configuration Data
Capacity Planning Performance Data
Security Assurance Windows Security Events, Firewall logs
Antimalware Configuration Data
System Update Assessment System Update Data
Log Management Windows Event Logs and/or IIS Logs
Change Tracking Software Inventory and Windows Service metadata
SQL Assessment Configuration Data

9. What are Intelligence Packs
• Its a collection of logic, visualization and data acquisition rules.
• Free configurations that you can download and setup according to your need.

10. What is Workspace
• A logical container which can be associated with multiple Microsoft and
Organizational accounts (e.g. ilyas.f@8kmiles.onmicroosft.com)
• Users can create as many workspaces a they need (Refer the pricing slide)

11. Getting Started
• Navigate to https://www.opinsights.azure.com/instructions/
• Select the appropriate option

12. Thanks
Ilyas F
Azure Certified Cloud Solution Architect
Ilyas.f@8kmiles.com
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