With the monitoring pack you can now check on the availability and performance of your applications running on Windows Azure from System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.
The great news is there is a VHD you can download to try this all out with ease and check out the TechNet documentation.
After configuration, the Windows Azure Monitoring Management Pack offers the following functionality:
- Discovers Windows Azure applications.
- Provides status of each role instance.
- Collects and monitors performance information.
- Collects and monitors Windows events.
- Collects and monitors the .NET Framework trace messages from each role instance.
- Grooms performance, event, and the .NET Framework trace data from Windows Azure storage account.
- Changes the number of role instances via a task
Related Links
Related Links:
- Attend a FREE Windows Azure Discovery Workshop in the UK
- Sign up to Microsoft Platform Ready for assistance on the Windows Azure Platform
- http://www.azure.com/offers
- http://www.azure.com/getstarted
Cloud-burps by Eric Nelson (ex-IUpdateable) 
Eric,
You might be interested in my illustrated, 60-step “Installing the Systems Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Azure Applications on SCOM 2012 Beta” post of 9/4/2011 (http://bit.ly/oOTshp). A follow-on post will demonstrate monitoring and analytics.
–rj