AZ496946 - Public Preview: Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Linux VMs to Enhance VM Troubleshooting

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Published

Jun 17, 2025

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • June 2025
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Product

Azure Monitor

Tag

Features

Category

DevOps
Management and governance

Description

Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, is expanding its integrated diagnostics capabilities with the Public Preview of Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Linux VMs.  

  

On-demand Performance Diagnostics has been available for Linux VMs, and this new capability bring Continuous Performance Diagnostics support to Linux, aligning with what is already available for Windows VMs. It provides continuous, actionable insights into high resource usage. Data is collected every 5 seconds and updates are uploaded every 5 minutes to your preferred storage account, whose retention policies you can customize according to your needs. This proactive approach to performance management empowers you to promptly diagnose performance issues as they arise due to high resource usage in your Azure VM, mitigating downtime and maximizing efficiency. The feature can be disabled at any time.

Elevate your troubleshooting experience with Azure Monitor and ensure optimal performance for your VMs. Seamlessly access continuous or on-demand insights, recommendations, and diagnostics data from Performance Diagnostics, all within your Azure Monitor workflow.  

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