# Monitoring

## Azure Advisor

[Azure Advisor](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/advisor/) evaluates your Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs. 

The recommendations are divided into five categories:

* **Reliability**: Used to ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications.
* **Security**: Used to detect threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to security breaches.
* **Performance**: Used to improve the speed of your applications.
* **Cost**: Used to optimize and reduce your overall Azure spending.
* **Operational Excellence**: Used to help you achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment best practices.

## Azure Monitor

[Azure Monitor](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/monitor/) is a platform for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and potentially taking action based on the metric and logging data from your entire Azure and on-premises environment.

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## Azure Service Health

[Azure Service Health](https://azure.microsoft.com/features/service-health/) provides a personalized view of the health of the Azure services, regions, and resources you rely on.