Azure Monitor vs Azure Security Center | What are the differences? (2024)

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Azure Monitor vs Azure Security Center | What are the differences? ›

Azure Security Center works at the subscription and resource group level, providing security insights and recommendations for all the resources within the specified scope. Monitoring Focus: Azure Monitor mainly focuses on collecting and analyzing performance and operational data, such as metrics, logs, and traces.

Azure Monitor primarily focuses on operational data like application logs, Azure activity logs, and performance metrics. Conversely, Azure Sentinel is designed to work with a more comprehensive range of data, including but not limited to security events, threat intelligence, and cloud application data.

Both Azure Monitor and Azure Advisor provide actionable insights: Azure Monitor offers us a way to respond to any given issue in real time. Similarly, Azure Advisor offers detailed recommendations to holistically optimize our operations. Thus, both services provide us actionable insights.

Here are some key differences: Purpose: Microsoft Sentinel is a SIEM service that provides security analytics and threat intelligence. Azure Security Center, on the other hand, is a security management system that provides advanced threat protection and helps strengthen your security posture.

Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution for collecting, analyzing, and responding to monitoring data from your cloud and on-premises environments. You can use Azure Monitor to maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services.

In conclusion, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics collectively offer a robust solution for monitoring Azure resources. While Azure Monitor provides a lot of features including aggregation of logs, real-time insights and performance metrics, Log Analytics allows advanced query capabilities and extensive log data analysis.

To monitor non-Azure and on-premises servers, you must install the Azure Arc agent. The Arc agent makes your on-premises servers visible to Azure as a resource it can target. You don't incur any additional cost for installing the Azure Arc agent.

Is Azure monitor a PaaS or SAAS? ›

You can easily migrate your SCOM deployments to the cloud with Azure Monitor SCOM managed instance, a scalable, cloud monitoring service that combines the latest SCOM capabilities with the benefits of a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service (PaaS), on Azure Monitor.

In summary, Azure Application Insights focuses on monitoring the performance and user behavior of applications, while Azure Monitor provides a broader scope of monitoring for applications, infrastructure, and operating systems.

Azure Monitor provides a complete set of features to monitor your Azure resources. It can also monitor resources in other clouds and on-premises. Azure Event Hubs collects the same kinds of monitoring data as other Azure resources that are described in Monitoring data from Azure resources.

Azure Security Center works at the subscription and resource group level, providing security insights and recommendations for all the resources within the specified scope. Monitoring Focus: Azure Monitor mainly focuses on collecting and analyzing performance and operational data, such as metrics, logs, and traces.

The New Era: Microsoft Defender

Replacing the term 'Azure' with 'Microsoft' depicts a broader vision. Instead of solely focusing on cloud security, Microsoft aims to exploit the Defender's capabilities to cover multiple platforms and extend security protocols across different stages of the data lifecycle.

SOC Service protects customer environment against cyber attack: Threat detection and monitoring - Configuration of detection tools and 24/7 continuous monitoring. Incident response - Resolve identified alerts and incidents. Performing defensive actions: containment, eradication and recovery.

Azure Sentinel, now known as Microsoft Sentinel, centralizes your threat collection, detection, response, and investigation efforts. It provides threat intelligence and intelligent security analytic capabilities that facilitate threat visibility, alert detection, threat response, and proactive hunting.

Azure Monitor helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on. Azure Service Health helps you stay informed and take action when Azure service issues like outages and planned maintenance affect you.

Metrics are numerical values that are collected at regular intervals and describe some aspect of a system at a particular time. Azure Monitor Metrics is one half of the data platform that supports Azure Monitor. The other half is Azure Monitor Logs, which collects and organizes log and performance data.