Mod 7 - Exploring Management and Monitoring Tools in Azure

Question 1

what is Powershell v7

Answer 1

opensource version of PS that can be used on other OS’s and used for interacting with Azure to get data and manage stuff on there

Question 2

How to install Powershell v.7

Answer 2

1. Go to github page for PS v7
2. Go to Assets
3. Download win-x64.msi

Question 3

How to install Azure PS Module

Answer 3

1. Open PS v7 app
2. Run cmd “install-module az”

Question 4

what is azure CLI

Answer 4

Purpose is to Do tasks in Azure directly from CLI

Question 5

what is Difference between CLI and PS

Answer 5

• PS
  o Object-oriented programming. Ex, VM is the object that you get and then you can write script to make changes to it
• CLI
  o Scripting process that runs cmd to do thing in Azure and then run another cmd
  o Example create cmds to run when at certain stage of DevOps Pipeline

Question 6

what is syntax of CLI

Answer 6

az noun verb
Ex. az account list

Question 7

How to run and Login to CLI

Answer 7

1. Access Azure CLI
2. Run cmd “az login”
3. Opens azure portal login in browser

Question 8

what is the Azure Cloud Shell

Answer 8

Command Line that has PS and azure CLI built in available in the GUI azure portal

Question 9

what is a prereq to running the az shell

Answer 9

Requires a storage account which deploys when you first access cloud shell, can store files of cmds or scripts in the cloud shell ex. PS file

Question 10

what is ARM templates

Answer 10

(Azure Resource Manager) Templates - JSON file that details a template that Azure can use to define and deploy azure resources in an automated fashion ex. create VM with certain VM type
Written in JSON(Javascript object Notation) data file format

Question 11

How does ARM template works?

Answer 11

You enter in parameters that get passed into ARM template to create a resource
Uses Azure CLI cmds

Question 12

what is Azure Monitor

Answer 12

monitoring resource in Azure GUI portal, search for Monitor OR go to resource and find Monitoring section

Question 13

what are the two Aggregation data sources for az monitor

Answer 13

1. Metrics: The core infrastructure performance statistics
   a. Ex, CPU %, DISK IO, Net Egress
2. Logs: Resource events saved in log files

Question 14

Log Analytics Workspace

Answer 14

: Tool that stores azure logs of resources into separate area so that logs of all azure resources don’t get mixed up. Can dashboard out the data with this tool

Question 15

Diagnostic Settings

Answer 15

Monitoring tool that shows networking metrics for resources

Question 16

Workbooks

Answer 16

Monitoring tool that gives interactive reports

Question 17

Change Analysis

Answer 17

Monitoring tool that investigates when changes took place

Question 18

Alerts

Answer 18

Monitoring tool that checks for a trigger in metrics or logs and sends alert to user

Question 19

Azure Insights

Answer 19

Monitoring tool in AZ Monitor that monitors and remembers how the resource is supposed to behave and be configured

Question 20

what is App Insights

Answer 20

Component of Azure Insights, is a separate resource that gets deployed and stores separate performance data in App insights database