Machine Creation Services Now Supports The Azure Monitor Agent!
Citrix News, Thursday, June 15,2023
Many Citrix customers with non-persistent Machine Creation Services (MCS) deployments that use Azure have told us they want to be able to deploy the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) on their VDAs to align with their enterprise monitoring standards. Unfortunately, simply provisioning a machine catalog with the AMA installed on the master image did not yield unique monitoring data for child VDAs in Azure Monitor.
Until now.
Citrix has released a new feature that provisions MCS VMs with the AMA installed as an extension and enables the ability to uniquely identify non-persistent VDAs. Now customers can monitor MCS-managed non-persistent VMs using Azure Monitor. This blog post will provide an overview of this new capability and show you how to get up and running with it.