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Yesterday Microsoft announced the evolution of DevOps. Or rather the evolution of DevOps tooling from Microsoft known as Visual Studio Team Services: Azure DevOps.

I’ve had a question today coming from a colleague that has no prior experience in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). He wanted to know how data flows from connected agents (regardless of Windows or Linux) to Log Analytics and subsequently to Azure Security Center.

Centralized integration with an identity provider is a common ask. It provides increased security and removes the reliance on out-of-band managed user accounts.

Almost all Azure management services run in/for any cloud. Among them is Update Management which automates OS patching for both Linux and Windows machines whether they are running on-premises, in Azure or in other clouds.

Nearly every customer I talk to about Azure management asks me this: “How can I do process monitoring?”. As there is currently no way to directly instrument either the Windows or the Linux agent to do explicit process monitoring another way need to be found.