2.3.3. Monitoring and Diagnostics

Monitoring your AI services helps you identify issues before users do, understand usage patterns for capacity planning, and optimize performance for cost savings. Without monitoring, you're flying blind—you won't know about failures until users complain.

What breaks without monitoring:

• Rate limiting issues go undetected until production outages
• Cost spikes surprise you at month-end
• Performance degradation affects user experience silently

Azure Monitor collects platform metrics automatically. Application Insights provides application-level telemetry including custom events and distributed tracing.