How do I monitor and send alerts for status of a service running on an azure VM

[ankurjain0070]

How do I monitor and send alerts for status of a service running on an azure VM. 

Example I have a kafka service running as linux system daemon but I want to get notified/alert when that service is down. Is there way from azure alerts  or alternate solution ?

[#2]

You can use alerts based on change tracking for windows services and linux daemons. More info about change tracking here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/change-tracking/overview

[#3]

@lilalexMS its seems defender is needed more costly affair. looking more alternate 

[#4]

i am able to do some workaround with syslog.

[#5]

You can do it with Azure Monitor https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-overview