title: Azure IaaS VM monitoring
body: <p>How to monitor Azure IaaS VM availability. how to get alerted in case if the VM goes down or gets restarted.</p>
  
  <p>Existing Azure monitoring / Alert  and diagnostics providing alerts on perf counters like CPU, memory and networking. Is there any KPI that we can consider as for to alert in case VM goes down. </p>
  
  <p>We don't want to invest on SCOM and find an alternative for this.</p>