Describe features and tools for managing and deploying Azure resources Flashcards
What is the primary purpose of Azure Advisor?
Azure Advisor’s primary purpose is to evaluate your Azure resources and provide recommendations to improve reliability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost-effectiveness. It helps you optimize your Azure environment by suggesting actionable items.
Name the five categories of recommendations provided by Azure Advisor.
The five categories of recommendations provided by Azure Advisor are Reliability, Security, Performance, Operational Excellence, and Cost.
What are the three services that compose Azure Service Health?
Azure Service Health is composed of Azure Status, which gives a broad view of global Azure health, Service Health, which is specific to the user’s services and regions, and Resource Health, which tracks the status of individual resources.
How does Azure Status differ from Service Health?
Azure Status gives a global view of the health of all Azure services across all Azure regions, focusing on widespread outages. Service Health focuses on the Azure services and regions that you, as a specific user, are utilizing.
What is the primary function of Resource Health within Azure Service Health?
Resource Health provides a tailored view of the health of your individual Azure resources, like a specific virtual machine. It allows you to monitor the status and availability of these resources.
What type of data does Azure Monitor collect, and where can that data come from?
Azure Monitor collects logging and metric data from various layers of your application architecture. The data can come from Azure resources, on-premises resources, and even multi-cloud environments.
What is the purpose of Azure Log Analytics?
Azure Log Analytics is the tool within the Azure portal where you write and run log queries against the data gathered by Azure Monitor. It allows you to analyze data using simple and complex queries.
How do Azure Monitor Alerts function, and what are the two main types of alert conditions?
Azure Monitor Alerts are an automated way to receive notifications when a defined threshold has been crossed. The two main types of alerts are metric-based, triggered by numeric values, and log-based, triggered by specific log events.
What is an action group in the context of Azure Monitor Alerts, and which other Azure services use them?
An action group is a collection of notification and action preferences associated with one or multiple alerts. Azure Monitor, Service Health, and Azure Advisor all utilize action groups for notifications.
What are the two ways to configure Application Insights, and what is a key function they provide?
Application Insights can be configured using an SDK embedded in the application, or by using the Application Insights agent. A key function they provide is the monitoring of the performance of your web applications, including synthetic testing.
