What agents should be used to monitor the different SQL database options in Azure? (4372330)

What agents should be used to monitor the different SQL database options in Azure?

What agents should be used to monitor the different database options in Azure?

 

Basically, Azure SQL databases are classified into three categories:


SQL Database
An Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS). Here the user doesn't need to take care of the underlying platform or anything. This should be monitoring by using an Azure SQL database agent, this includes Azure SQL Elastic Pool monitoring.


SQL Managed Instances
An Azure SQL Managed Instance falls into the industry category of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and is best for most migrations to the cloud. This should be monitored by using a SQL Server agent .

SQL Virtual Machines
A SQL Server on Azure VM falls into the industry category Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and allows you to run SQL Server inside a fully managed virtual machine (VM) in Azure.  This should be monitored by using a SQL Server agent .