Management Packs and direct connected agents (without SCOM)

Hi Guys,
It´s possible to install and use Management Packs (such as SharePoint Management pack) without SCOM? I mean, collect sharepoint management data using MP and send it to azure operational insights directly (using Monitoring agent only)?
Thanks and Best Regards
Hélio Sá Moreira
Chief Technology Officer

No, because Operations manager MPs have discoveries of objects and monitors to calculate state and groups that need to be calculated by a management server.... all things that today OpInsights doesn't do, as OpInsights is not SCOM.
But you can collect your logs from those workloads and run your own intelligence (in the form of searches) against them i.e.
Monitoring SQL Backup Failures with Azure Operational Insights Search and Dashboards
IIS Management Pack Event-Alerting Rules’s OpInsights Searches Equivalents
The two approaches are not opposed, but complementary: SCOM is not meant to keep a very big data volume in the on-premises databases, and a lot of its alerting and intelligence that happens down at the AGENT level. This is performant, but lacks correlation
capabilities, since you can easily get duplicate alerts from multiple agents.
In Operational Insights we look at volumes of data to aid with rich troubleshooting scenarios, investigations and deep dives (often following up from a SCOM alert) allowing to span across all that data.
Check what other data sources other customers are asking to bring in Operational Insights
http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operational-insights/category/88086-log-management-and-log-collection-policy
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