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VM Monitoring - A bit of confusion about agents
Hi, I've got a bit confused by the monitoring of Azure VMs (btw not the preview VM insights). In terms of monitoring agents there is the Log Analytics extension and the IaaS Diagnostic extens...
Naturally 5 minutes after posting I find out that yeah, to use the metrics in Azure monitor you need the IaaS diagnostic extension installed on the VM. Just seems a bit cheeky to me as surely this means you end up paying for the data storage twice in a way, once to the storage account and again for the data into Log Analytics. Anyway at least I get it now :)