Azure Monitor for VMs monitors your virtual machines, virtual machine scale sets, and Azure Arc machines at scale. It analyzes the performance and health of your Windows and Linux VMs, and monitors their processes and dependencies on other resources and external processes. It includes support for monitoring performance and application dependencies for VMs that are hosted on-premises or in another cloud provider.

Diagnostic and Usage Data

Microsoft automatically collects usage and performance data through your use of the Azure Monitor for VMs service. Microsoft uses this Data to provide and improve the quality, security and integrity of the Service Map service. Data includes information about the configuration of your software like operating system and version and also includes IP address, DNS name, and Workstation name in order to provide accurate and efficient troubleshooting capabilities. We do not collect names, addresses or other contact information.

For more information on data collection and usage, please see the Microsoft Online Services Privacy Statement.