Microsoft
Azure
General
Deploy and configure Azure Monitor (AZ-1004)
In this learning path, you practice implementing Azure Monitor to collect, analyze and act on monitoring telemetry from Azure environments. You learn to configure and interpret monitoring for virtual machines, networking, and web applications.
About the course
Skills Covered
- Create a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure access to a Log Analytics Workspace
- Configure data retention for a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure Health Status Alerts for a Log Analytics workspace
- Describe how Application Insights is used to monitor application performance
- Distinguish between the different Application Insights sampling rates
- Describe Azure diagnostic settings and resource logs
- Leverage Azure SQL Insights to improve performance of Azure SQL database applications
- Describe the Azure Monitor Agent and how it can be deployed to IaaS Virtual Machines
- Explain VM Insights and how to use it to monitor IaaS VM performance
- Enable data collection rules to collect operating system and application logs
- Create and configure an Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor
- Create and configure a flow log
- Enable Traffic Analytics
- Configure access to flow logs
- Describe the purpose of and identify the different types of alerts
- Explain how action groups are used to notify users about alerts
- Configure and manage alert rules
- Configure alert processing rules to modify triggered alerts
- Describe how Change Analysis provides insight into changes made to Azure resources
- Deploy and configure Log Analytics.
- Configure monitoring for Web apps.
- Monitor compute and networking services.
- Configure alerts.
Course content
Create and configure a Log Analytics workspace
- Create a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure access to Log Analytics workspaces
- Configure Log Analytics data retention
- Configure Log Analytics health status alerts
Configure monitoring for applications
- Understand Application Insights
- Application Insights sampling
- Diagnostic settings and resource logs
- Azure SQL Insights
Configure monitoring for virtual machines
- Deploy Azure Monitor Agent to IaaS Virtual Machines
- Monitor Performance with VM insights
- Configure data collection rules for IaaS VM logs
Configure monitoring for virtual networks
- Topology
- Connection Monitor
- IP flow verify and NSG diagnostics
- Packet capture
Configure alerts and responses
- Azure Monitor alerts
- Action groups
- Alert rules
- Alert processing rules
- Azure Monitor change analysis