Introduction to Monitoring and Diagnostics in Azure Virtual Desktop

Welcome to this video in the Azure Virtual Desktop series. In today’s session, we focus on Monitoring and Diagnostics in Azure Virtual Desktop, a vital part of maintaining a reliable, secure, and high-performing environment. Whether you are running a small set of session hosts or managing an enterprise-scale deployment, mastering monitoring and diagnostics ensures that users experience seamless virtual desktops without disruption. This video explains how tools like Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Kusto Query Language come together to provide the visibility and control administrators need to stay ahead of issues, reduce downtime, and deliver consistent performance.

What you will learn in this video

In this video, you will gain practical insights into the following areas:

1. Using Azure Monitor for AVD: Learn how to collect and interpret metrics such as CPU, memory, and network utilization to understand the health of your environment.
2. Azure Diagnostics Logs in Azure Virtual Desktop: Explore activity logs, connection logs, and agent logs that provide the detailed timeline needed for root cause analysis.
3. Azure AVD Performance Monitoring of Session Hosts: Discover how to track workload distribution, user loads, and host availability to make informed scaling decisions.
4. Azure AVD User Session Diagnostics: Understand how to troubleshoot connection latency, sign-in failures, and disconnection issues to improve the user experience.
5. Azure AVD Setting Up Alerts and Automation: See how proactive alerts and automated runbooks help resolve issues instantly and keep environments stable.
6. Azure AVD Troubleshooting with Kusto Query Language (KQL): Learn how to query log data for advanced diagnostics, trend analysis, and real-time insights.
7. Azure AVD Best Practices: Follow strategies such as centralized logging, regular reviews, alert tuning, and access control to maximize monitoring efficiency.

Each of these areas is designed to give you both a strategic and practical understanding of how to manage and optimize your Azure Virtual Desktop environment with confidence.

Teaser for the Next Video

As you finish this session on monitoring and diagnostics, you’ll be ready to dive even deeper. In the next video of the series: Role of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics with AVD, we will explore how these two platforms work hand in hand to provide powerful, integrated insights into your virtual desktop infrastructure.