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The Art of Simplicity

Azure Arc enables unified monitoring of on-premises Windows workloads without migration by extending Azure's management plane to on-prem VMs. Combined with Log Analytics custom tables and Azure Workbooks, this creates a cloud-native health dashboard for application pools, Windows services, and scheduled tasks. The solution requires no inbound connectivity, uses outbound HTTPS only, and integrates with existing Azure Monitor alerting. Data Collection Rules push structured health snapshots to Log Analytics, enabling KQL-based queries and interactive dashboards that scale to hundreds of servers with predictable costs.

Building an end-to-end monitoring solution with Azure Arc, Log Analytics and Workbooks–Part 1: Overview & Architecture