Improved Performance Monitoring Comes to Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Microsoft adds Azure Monitor support, enabling customers to keep a closer eye on the big data service. Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft's elastic, cloud-based data warehousing offering for big data workloads, is now offering its customers more detailed performance insights. The service supports Azure Monitor, revealed Kevin Ngo, program manager of SQL Engineering at Microsoft, in an April 12 announcement. As its name suggests, Azure Monitor is a performance monitoring tool that allows customers to keep track of resource utilization and determine the health of their cloud resources. he integration "not only enables you to monitor your data warehouse within the Azure portal, but its tight integration between Azure services also enables you to monitor your entire data analytics solution within a single interface," Ngo added.