Microsoft wants to get better at monitoring Linux.
Don’t pinch yourself – this isn’t some weird dream. Redmond on Tuesday took the covers off a new Linux VM monitoring tool.
“A significant number of Virtual Machines on Azure today are running Linux workloads,” writes Khailid Mouss, a senior program manager for the Azure Compute Runtime. To help those folks Redmond has therefore created “new monitoring capabilities we have just released (currently in Preview) for Linux virtual machines running on Azure.”