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Sarika Sharma
Copper Contributor
Jan 16, 2018
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Microsoft Monitoring Agent Azure VM Extension Heartbeat Service in event log

Hi,   In my windows vm event log, I see the following entry every night around 7:30pm. A service was installed in the system. Service Name: Microsoft Monitoring Agent Azure VM Extension Heart...
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  • Hannel Hazeley's avatar
    Hannel Hazeley
    Jan 17, 2018

    Hello Sarika,

     

    The Monitoring Agent is part of OMS data collection and it is used for different services, backup been one of them. See article below.

     

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/operations-management-suite/operations-management-suite-overview

     

    Thanks.

     

Hannel Hazeley's avatar
Hannel Hazeley
Iron Contributor
Jan 17, 2018

Hello Sarika,

 

The Monitoring Agent is part of OMS data collection and it is used for different services, backup been one of them. See article below.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/operations-management-suite/operations-management-suite-overview

 

Thanks.

 

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