Case Study: Microsoft Corporation achieves centralized Azure monitoring and faster incident response with Elastic

Monitor your Cloud Environment with the Logstash Azure Monitoring Module

Elastic, working with Microsoft to support Azure customers, saw that cloud monitoring was fragmented across databases, containers, security, and admin tools, making it hard to answer critical questions (e.g., unexpected logins, missing instances, SQL performance) and to meet industry requirements like HIPAA. Customers needed a simple, centralized way to ingest Azure logs and metrics and to correlate events across services.

The Logstash Azure Monitoring Module centralizes Azure Monitor/Event Hub data into the Elastic Stack (Logstash → Elasticsearch → Kibana + X‑Pack), providing automated processing, enrichment, packaged Kibana dashboards, alerting and anomaly detection, and a one‑command quick start. The result is faster investigation and query times, consolidated “single pane of glass” monitoring, improved security detection and root‑cause analysis, and quicker time‑to‑insight for use cases such as healthcare compliance and enterprise security.

Microsoft Corporation

Olivia Klose

Software Development Engineer II