Enabling diagnostic settings with Azure Portal
- Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com.
- Go to the VM that we created in the previous chapter again. Make sure that the VM is running, and in the left-hand menu, under Monitoring, select Diagnostic settings.
- The Diagnostic Settings blade will open up. You will need to select a storage account where the metrics can be stored.
- Click on the Enable guest-level monitoring button to update the diagnostic settings for the virtual machine:
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