Monitor and Backup Flashcards
What must be enabled and configured before insights can be extracted or visualizations created in Log Analytics?
Log Analytics must be enabled and configured.
What is the retention period for most metrics within the Azure service?
Most metrics are retained for 93 days within the Azure service.
How long can logs stored in Log Analytics be retained?
Logs stored in Log Analytics can be retained for up to 2 years.
What are the fixed properties of metrics?
Time, type, resource, value, and optional dimensions.
What is the key difference in data availability between metrics and logs?
Metrics are gathered over time and available for immediate query, while logs are gathered after being triggered by an event and can take time to process.
At what intervals are Azure metrics collected?
Azure metrics are collected at one-minute intervals unless otherwise specified.
What is the retention period for classic guest OS metrics collected through diagnostic extensions?
14 days.
What is the retention period for guest OS metrics sent to Azure Monitor metrics?
93 days.
What is the retention period for guest OS metrics collected by the Log Analytics agent?
31 days, extendable up to two years.
What is the retention period for application insights log-based metrics?
90 days.
What does Application Insights provide for development and production monitoring?
Response times of dependencies, exception traces, debugging snapshots, and execution profiles.
What additional value does Application Insights provide when an application is instrumented to emit custom events?
It helps to debug an app and understand user interactions more effectively.
What resources can Azure Backup service back up?
Virtual machines, SAP HANA databases in an Azure VM, Azure file share, SQL Server databases in an Azure VM.
What is the best practice for choosing storage redundancy type for the Recovery Services Vault in Azure Backup?
Choose Geo-Redundant storage or Read Access Geo-Redundant storage.
How long are vault credentials valid for after download in Azure Backup?
48 hours.
What does Azure Monitor provide?
A single pane of glass for accessing Azure metrics, tenant and resource diagnostic logs, Log Analytics, service health, and alerts.
What types of alerts can be configured in Azure Monitor?
Metric alerts, Activity Log alerts that can notify by email, webhook, SMS, Logic Apps, or an Azure Automation Runbook.
What can Azure Log Analytics do?
Consolidate machine data from on-premises and cloud-based workloads, indexed and categorized for quick searching.
What solutions does Azure Log Analytics offer to help administrators?
Pre-built visualizations and queries for surfacing insights quickly.
How can queries in Log Analytics be used?
They can be saved for quick access, visualized, shared using Azure Dashboards, and exported to Excel and Power BI.
What is the Recovery Services Vault used for?
Configuration and management of both Backup and Site Recovery.
What does an Azure Backup policy define?
How often backups occur and how long the backups are retained.
What can the Azure Backup service do?
Backup and restore an entire virtual machine and restore files from a recovery point without recreating the entire VM.
What does the Azure Backup service protect?
Files and folders, applications, and IaaS virtual machines.
