Monitor apps in Azure for e.g. sitecore webapps

We have deployed SiteCore applications in azure. We use Azure IaaS and not PaaS services. So is there a way for us to monitor the sitecore apps through SCOM? if so, how can we set up the SCOM infrastructure - in terms of servers we need, AD set up
etc., Currently we don't Sync AD with azure. Azure is separate where IT remote into the VM and develop apps and publish to different region and we are using traffic manager (not CDN). As we finish the sitecore deployment, we need to find a way to monitor
the apps and sql databases etc., what's the best practice? thankyou

System Center Operations Manager is still our flagship monitoring product - largely due to the richness and breadth of its management packs
http://aka.ms/mpcatalog that cover most well-known off the shelf workloads and monitor them without your staff needing to be an expert on each of those technologies.
It is supported to run it in Azure and use it with Azure IaaS VMs if you want to do so.
Operations Manager also included some APM technology - this scenario later evolved into AppInsights, largely targeting Developer scenarios for custom-built applications, and it provides additional capabilities in the APM space: instrumentation for your Web
application/pages and Windows Phone/Store app to show usage, performance and availability. Also look at the thread here
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/fff4c467-fb4f-4f22-9ad1-b118d31c281a/azure-operationalapplication-insights?forum=opinsights
Operational Insights is a log intelligence solution for ITPro's for analyzing servers and server logs and provides out of the box insight into several aspects of the server, from configuration changes, log reporting, update and malware assessment, SQL assessment
etc. It also provides a way for you to quickly search through the collected data.
This is valuable on its own, but also makes for a great complement to OpsMgr since it helps with all sort of slicing and dicing and troubleshooting scenarios that need large volumes of data, which OpsMgr's databases and consoles weren't optimal to deal with;
at the same time OpsMgr provides real time alerting today, which for OpInsights is a future item in the backlog
http://feedback.azure.com/forums/267889-azure-operational-insights/suggestions/6519198-long-running-saved-searches-or-scheduled-that-ca - but OpInsights can work as a modern 'web console' to triage OpsMgr alerts with the alert management intelligence pack
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2014/11/12/manage-your-operations-manager-alerts-from-azure-operational-insight-with-the-new-alert-management-intelligence-pack.aspx and even on the go thru the mobile app
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2014/11/24/access-your-operational-insights-on-the-go.aspx
As you said, there are various options, and the landscape is evolving rapidly - the best one choice, or a combination of these - i.e. see this thread
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/50ecdf2e-0e35-4fba-927a-5ba52f726405/add-operational-insights-to-cloud-service-during-publish?forum=opinsights is the one that works for you, your workloads, your application, and the way your teams work.

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