Describe Monitoring Tools in Azure

Question 1

What is Azure Advisor?

Answer 1

• evaluates azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security and performance, achieve operation excellence and reduce costs
• helps save time on cloud optimization

Question 2

How are azure advisor recommendations split?

Answer 2

• reliability
• security
• performance
• operational excellence
• cost

Question 3

What is Azure Service Health?

Answer 3

helps keep track of resources and overall state of azure by combining;
- Azure Status; Azure global status
- Service health; narrower view of azure services and regions you’re using
- Resource Health
It keeps logs of historical alerts so you can spot trends in outages

Question 4

What is Azure Monitor?

Answer 4

• platform for collecting data on your resources, analyzing that data, visualizing the info and acting on the results

Question 5

What is Azure Log Analytics?

Answer 5

• the tool in azure portal where you’ll write and run log queries on the data gathered by azure monitor
• supports simple and complex queries
• complex queries can be used to perform stats analysis and visualise results in charts to ID trends

Question 6

What are Azure Monitor Alerts?

Answer 6

• automated way to stay informed when azure monitor detects a threshold being crossed
• fully customizable
• can be set up to monitor the logs and trigger on certain log events
• use action groups to configure who to notify and what action to take

Question 7

What are application insights?

Answer 7

• an Azure Monitor feature that monitors web apps
• can monitor apps running in azure, on-prem or in different cloud environment
• can install SDK in app or use app insights agent

Question 8

What info can application insights monitor?

Answer 8

• Request rates, response times and failures
• dependency rates, response times and failure rates
• page views and load performance
• AJAX calls from web pages
• user and session counts
• performance counters