Describe monitoring tools in Azure

Question 1

Define the ‘Azure Advisor’

Answer 1

Evaluates Azure resources and makes recommendations to improve reliability, security, performance, and reduce costs.

Question 2

What is the purpose of the azure advisor?

Answer 2

Designed to help you save time on cloud optimization.

Question 3

What are the 5 categories of azure advisor?

Answer 3

1. Reliability
2. Security
3. Performance
4. Operational Excellence
5. Cost

Question 4

Define ‘Operational Excellence’

Answer 4

Used to help you achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment best practices.

Question 5

Define ‘Azure Service Health’

Answer 5

Helps keep track of Azure resources.

Question 6

What are the 3 Azure health services?

Answer 6

1. Azure Status
2. Service Health
3. Resource Health

Question 7

Define ‘Azure Status’ in Azure health services

Answer 7

A global view of the health of all Azure services across all Azure regions.

Question 8

Define ‘Service Health’ in Azure health services

Answer 8

Provides a narrower view of Azure services and regions; Focuses on the Azure services and regions you’re using.

Question 9

Define ‘Resource Health’ in Azure health services

Answer 9

Provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources, such as a specific virtual machine instance.

Question 10

Define the ‘Azure Monitor’

Answer 10

Platform for collecting data on your resources, analyzing that data, visualizing the information, and even acting on the results.

Question 11

What type of resources and environments can azure monitor manage?

Answer 11

Azure resources, your on-premises resources, and even multi-cloud resources like virtual machines hosted with a different cloud provider.

Question 12

Define ‘Azure Log Analytics’

Answer 12

Tool in the Azure portal used to write and run log queries on the data gathered by Azure Monitor.

Question 13

Can azure monitor alert of a threshold being reached?

Answer 13

Yes; Set the alert conditions, the notification actions, and then Azure Monitor Alerts notifies when an alert is triggered.

Question 14

Does azure monitor have corrective abilities?

Answer 14

Depending on your configuration, Azure Monitor Alerts can also attempt corrective action.

Question 15

What mechanism is used to configure azure monitor alerts?

Answer 15

Uses action groups to configure who to notify and what action to take.

Question 16

Define an ‘action group’

Answer 16

A collection of notification and action preferences that you associate with one or multiple alerts.

Question 17

What are all the azure services that use action groups?

Answer 17

Azure Monitor, Service Health, and Azure Advisor.

Question 18

Define ‘Application Insights’

Answer 18

An Azure Monitor feature that monitors web applications.

Question 19

What type of resources and environments can application insights monitor?

Answer 19

Applications that are running in Azure, on-premises, or in a different cloud environment.

Question 20

What are two ways to configure application insights for an application?

Answer 20

1. Install an SDK in the application
2. Use the Application Insights agent.