Azure Daily 2022 by Gordon

Public preview: Enable VM insights using Azure Monitor agent

Currently, Azure Monitor VM insights requires a Log Analytics agent and a dependency agent installed on each virtual machine or virtual machine scale set to be monitored. This public preview will introduce a version of VM insights that makes use of the new Azure Monitor agent and would replace the existing Log Analytics agent.

Several key capabilities have been released in preview:

Easy configuration using data collection rules to collect VM performance counters and specific data types.
Option to enable/disable processes and dependencies data that provides Map view, thus, optimizing costs.
Enhanced security and performance that comes with using Azure Monitor agent and managed identity.

Virtual machine insights perspective in the Azure portal