Other monitoring tools
Along with what is available in the Azure portal, you have some other options when it comes to monitoring your cloud-based infrastructure.
PowerShell
We have seen the built-in capabilities for monitoring and alerting that are available through the portal. If you have a large environment, creating the necessary alerts can obviously be time consuming. Wouldn't it be nice to have a way to automate the creation of alerts? Step up PowerShell. PowerShell is Microsoft's scripting tool of choice and can be used to help you create and manage your alerts in Azure.
Keith Meyer has an excellent blog post on this information on the Microsoft TechNet site (http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2014/11/08/scripts-to-tools-automate-monitoring-alert-rules-in-microsoft-azure-with-powershell-and-the-azure-service-management-rest-api.aspx ...
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