Support analytics using monitoring and diagnostics

In the cloud world, advisors, partners, and customer implementation teams need to leverage all possible available data in LCS to monitor and diagnose an environment. Telemetry is the basis of monitoring diagnostics in LCS.

Support analytics comprises three information tenants: monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics, which are explained in the subsequent section.

Monitoring

Microsoft supports two types of to view the of an environment through LCS via availability and health monitoring. We'll now look at each of these.

• Availability monitoring: This type of performs a check against the environment to make sure that it's available at all times. If the check fails, the Microsoft service engineering team is immediately notified:

The various preceding charts are for index analysis on SQL Azure for a production environment. The Index usage view shows the most expensive indices on the environment based on seeks versus scans along tables with the...