Shankar Sivadasan, a Senior Azure Product Marketing Manager, gives us all the details on how the trusty Azure Monitor service has evolved into the main monitoring solution in Azure. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode272.mp3 Transcript: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/aca83d23-620b-46d6-beec-e920bff88847/videos/ac80ad036c/ Resources: Azure Monitor overview - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/overview Kusto pluralsight course - https://aka.ms/KQLPluralsight Blog post on dynamic thresholds - https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/announcing-azure-monitor-aiops-alerts-with-dynamic-thresholds/ Other updates: Windows Virtual Desktop is the only service that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support for Windows Server Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and apps. With Windows Virtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, while enjoying built-in security and compliance. This means customers can now virtualize using multi-session Windows 10, Windows 7, and Windows Server desktops and apps (RDS) to Windows Virtual Desktop for a simplified management and deployment experience with Azure. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/larger-more-powerful-managed-disks-for-azure-virtual-machines/ New updates to Azure AI expand AI capabilities for developers https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-updates-to-azure-ai-expand-ai-capabilities-for-developers/ Azure Sphere ecosystem accelerates innovation https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-sphere-ecosystem-accelerates-innovation/ High-Throughput with Azure Blob Storage https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/high-throughput-with-azure-blob-storage/ Azure Data Box family meets customers at the edge https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-box-family-meets-customers-at-the-edge/