Skill 5.1 Monitor Resources by using Azure Monitor

Question 1

What are areas to consider when creating a monitoring strategy

Answer 1

Visibility into services and the Azure Platform
Deeper Insights into applications
Resource Optimization

Question 2

What does Azure Monitor do

Answer 2

maximizes the availability and performance of your applications by delivering a comprehensive solution for collection, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-prem environments

Question 3

Describe the Azure Monitor Landing Page

Answer 3

provides a jumping off point to configure other more specific monitoring services, such as Application insights, Network Watcher, Log analytics, Management solutiosn and so on

Question 4

What is Azure Monitor for containers

Answer 4

offering for monitoring your Managed Kubernetes clusters (AKS) and Azure Container instances (ACI)

Question 5

What are retention differences between Metrics and logs

Answer 5

Metrics are retained for 93 days
Logs can be retained for up to 2 years/

Question 6

What are properties differences between logs and metrics

Answer 6

Metrics have a fixed set of properties which are time, type, resource, value, adn dimensions.
Logs have different properties for each log type

Question 7

What are the data availability differences between logs and metrics

Answer 7

Metrics are gathered over time while logs are triggered by an event

Question 8

Describe Log Analytics Workspace

Answer 8

allows the quering of data stored in log analytics and gives you access to the same query interfaces you have through Azure Monitor, but you can also make customizations to the configuration of the workspace and access workspace specific solutions

Question 9

How long are guest OS metrics retained

Answer 9

Collected through diagnostic extensions and sent to an Azure Storage account.
Retained for 14 days

Question 10

Guest OS metrics sent to Azure Monitor Metrics

Answer 10

Monitored Windows Diagnostic extentions of InfluxData Telegraf agent. Retained for 93 days

Question 11

Describe Guest OS metrics collected by Log Analytics Agents

Answer 11

Collected by Log Analytics agent and are sent to a Log Analytics Workspace
Retention period of 31 days

Question 12

Describe Application Insights log-based metrics

Answer 12

Log-based metrics that are translated into log queries. Retention period of 90 days

Question 13

What are the properties that each metric has

Answer 13

-The time the value was created
-The type of measurement that value represents
-The resource with which the value is associated
- The value itself

Question 14

Describe Log Analytics Workspace

Answer 14

where logs are collected and aggregated. The logs can alos be queried and visualized through log analytics or through azure mointor.

Question 15

What needs to be provided to configure a workspace

Answer 15

-A name for the workspace
-The subscription the workspace will be associated with
-The resource group
- A location
- A selection for pricing tier

Question 16

How much space is included with the free tier of workspace

Answer 16

5GB of logs a month

Question 17

What must machines have to report logs to log analytics

Answer 17

Azure Log Analytics (OMS) agent which binds to a workspace to collect the data defined in the workspace settings

Question 18

What are considered Diagnostic Logs

Answer 18

logs that you configure as a tenant service, or a resource are seperate from the Azure activity log and guest telemetry

Question 19

Describe the Azure Activity Log

Answer 19

surfaces data at the subscription level and can be useful for understanding actions that occur within your environment against the Resource manager APIs. Events are retained for 90 days

Question 20

What types of data can Azure Monitor store and surface

Answer 20

Metrics – Numerical Values such as performance counters
Logs – Either Numerical data or text

Question 21

What language does Log Analytics use

Answer 21

Kusto Query Language (KQL)

Question 22

How can Logs stored in Log analytics be removed from a workspace

Answer 22

Through the retention configuration

Question 23

What can Alerts generated within Azure Monitor Invoke

Answer 23

Azure Automation runbooks, Logic apps, Azure functions, and even generate incidents in third-party IT service Management tools.

Question 24

What are the components of a Alert Rule

Answer 24

A target resource
Conditional logic for the alert with criteria based on the available signals for the target resource
An Action Group, or what should happen when an alert rule condition is met
A name and description for the alert rule

Question 25

What is the difference in Alert Rules in Azure Monitor and alerts

Answer 25

Alert rules in Azure Monitor is the criteria used when an alert should be generated. An alert is generated based on teh rule, and the alerts themselves are acted upon seperately

Question 26

What actions can you run for action groups

Answer 26

Runbook – A set of powershell code that runs in the Azure Automation service
ITSM – You may have up to 10 IT service manager (ITSM) actions with an ITSM connection
Logic Apps – Provides a virtual designer to model and automate your process as a series of steps known as a workflow. There are many connectors across the cloud and on-premises on quickly integrate across services and protocols.
Webhook — A webhook allows you to route an Azure alert notification to other systems for post-processing or custom actions. For example, you cannot use a webhook on an alert to route it to sevices that send text, log bugs, or any number of other actions

Question 27

How are alert rules managed

Answer 27

through Azure Mointor

Question 28

How can alerts take to generate

Answer 28

10 minutes

Question 29

What are the three states alerts can have

Answer 29

New – the alert is new and has not been reviewed
Acknowledged – The issues that generated teh alert is being actioned by teh administrator
Closed – the issue has been resolved

Question 30

Describe applications insight

Answer 30

Used for development and as a production monitoring solution. It works by installing a package into your app, which can provide a more internal view of what’s going on with your code.