Azure Monitor Flashcards
What is Azure Monitor?
A comprehensive monitoring service that provides visibility into the performance and health of Azure resources services and applications.
What are the key features of Azure Monitor?
Application, service, and resource collection of performance, metrics, and log data for analysis, visualization, and alerting.
What data sources does Azure Monitor collect from?
Applications
Services
Azure infrastructure
Operating systems
Custom sources
What is the role of Log Analytics in Azure Monitor?
Log Analytics enables, capture, querying and analyzing collected data from Azure Monitor using KQL (Kusto Query Language).
What is the use of Metrics in Azure Monitor?
Metrics are numerical values that describe the state of a system at a particular point in time, used for near real-time monitoring.
What is the difference between logs and metrics in Azure Monitor?
Metrics are structured numerical data collected at regular intervals, while logs are unstructured events that provide detailed information.
How does Azure Monitor integrate with Azure Alerts?
Azure Monitor can trigger alerts based on metrics or log queries when certain conditions are met.
What is a Diagnostic Setting in Azure Monitor?
A configuration that specifies where and what data to send from an Azure resource to Azure Monitor for Azure level infra level logs..
What is Azure Monitor Application Insights?
A feature of Azure Monitor that monitors the performance and usage of applications, particularly web apps.
What are Azure Monitor Workbooks?
Customizable reports and dashboards that help visualize Azure Monitor data for analysis.
What is the role of Action Groups in Azure Monitor?
Action Groups define actions to take when an alert is triggered, such as sending an email or invoking an Azure Function.
What isAzure Monitor Autoscale?
It is a function of Azure Monitor thet can be used automatically adjust the number of resources (applications ) based on performance data collected by Azure Monitor.
How does Azure Monitor integrate with Log Analytics Workspace?
Logs from Azure Monitor can be stored in a Log Analytics Workspace for advanced querying and analysis.
What is the role of Kusto Query Language (KQL) in Azure Monitor?
KQL is used to query and analyze log data collected by Azure Monitor.
What is the use of Azure Monitor Metrics Explorer?
To visually explore and analyze metrics in real-time through customizable charts.
What is Azure Monitor for VMs?
A feature that monitors the performance, dependencies, and health of virtual machines.
What is Azure Monitor for containers?
A feature that monitors the performance of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and other containerized workloads.
What types of alerts can be created in Azure Monitor?
Metric alerts, log alerts, and activity log alerts.
How does Azure Monitor support proactive alerting?
By setting up alert rules based on thresholds, anomalies, or log queries.
What is an Azure Monitor metric namespace?
A container for a set of metrics related to a specific resource.
What is the role of Log Analytics Agent in Azure Monitor?
The agent collects telemetry data from virtual machines and sends it to Azure Monitor.
What is the purpose of Azure Monitor Network Insights?
To provide visibility into network performance and dependencies between resources.
What is Azure Monitor Activity Log?
A log that records all control-plane events (resource management events) in Azure.
What is Azure Monitor’s Service Health feature?
A feature that provides information on Azure service outages and planned maintenance.
What is the retention period for Azure Monitor Logs?
By default, logs are retained for 30 days, but the retention period can be configured.
What is a Log Analytics Workspace in Azure Monitor?
A central repository for storing and analyzing log data using KQL.
How can Azure Monitor integrate with external tools?
Azure Monitor can integrate with tools like Grafana, Power BI, and external SIEM systems.
What is the cost model for Azure Monitor?
Costs are based on the volume of data ingested, stored, and the number of alerts set.
What is the Azure Monitor Insights feature?
A collection of insights (e.g., VM Insights, Container Insights) to monitor the health and performance of specific resources.
How does Azure Monitor support application performance monitoring (APM)?
Through Application Insights, which monitors application performance, user behavior, and diagnostics.
What is the role of Azure Monitor Logs?
To collect and analyze log data from Azure resources and applications for troubleshooting and auditing.
What is the benefit of using Azure Monitor Workbooks?
Workbooks allow you to create customizable visual reports for better insight into monitoring data.
What is a data source in Azure Monitor?
Any system or application that sends data to Azure Monitor, such as VMs, apps, or databases.
What are Diagnostic Logs in Azure Monitor?
Logs that capture events and activity within Azure resources, providing insight into their behavior.
What is Azure Monitor Metrics API?
An API that allows programmatic access to metrics data from Azure Monitor.
How can you query data in Azure Monitor?
By using Kusto Query Language (KQL) in the Log Analytics Workspace.
What is the Azure Monitor Auto Scale feature?
It automatically adjusts resource capacity based on performance data collected by Azure Monitor.
What is Azure Monitor Logs ingestion?
The process of collecting and storing log data from resources and services in Azure Monitor.
How does Azure Monitor assist in troubleshooting issues?
By collecting metrics and logs to identify performance issues and errors in applications or resources.
What is Azure Monitor’s Custom Metrics feature?
It allows you to define and track custom metrics specific to your application or resource needs.
What is the Azure Monitor REST API?
An API that enables developers to retrieve monitoring data programmatically from Azure Monitor.