Azure Monitor fundamentals
Offered By: Microsoft via Microsoft Learn
Course Description
Overview
- Module 1: Learn what Azure Monitor is and where you would use it.
- Evaluate whether Azure Monitor is appropriate for your Azure resource performance monitoring.
- Describe how the monitoring and reporting aspects of Azure Monitor work to provide insights into your resources hosted on Azure.
- Module 2: Use monitoring services on Azure to bring operational excellence to your applications and infrastructure.
- Select the appropriate monitoring solution based on use case
- Integrate monitoring solutions to create a unified monitoring strategy
- Module 3: Learn how to monitor the health of your Azure VMs by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts.
- Identify metrics and diagnostic data that you can collect for virtual machines
- Configure monitoring for a virtual machine
- Use monitoring data to diagnose problems
- Module 4: In this module, you'll configure Application Insights and use it to study page load data for an Azure web app.
- Enable Application Insights runtime instrumentation on an Azure web app.
- Learn about the Application Insights telemetry visualization features of the portal.
- Create a chart to view a specific metric.
- Module 5: Learn how to use Azure Monitor VM Insights to monitor your organization's Azure virtual machines.
- Evaluate Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights.
- Configure a Log Analytics workspace.
- Build queries from the Heartbeat and InsightsMetrics tables.
- Module 6: Use Azure Monitor logs to extract valuable information about your infrastructure from log data.
- Identify the features and capabilities of Azure Monitor logs
- Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data
- Module 7: Respond to incidents and activities in your infrastructure through alerting capabilities in Azure Monitor.
- Configure alerts on events in your Azure resources based on metrics, log events, and Activity log events
- Learn how to use smart groups to identify and group related alerts to reduce alert noise
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Syllabus
- Module 1: Introduction to Azure Monitor
- Introduction
- What is Azure Monitor?
- How Azure Monitor works
- When to use Azure Monitor
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 2: Design a holistic monitoring strategy on Azure
- Introduction
- Introduction to full stack monitoring in Azure
- Monitoring options available in Azure
- Manage applications by using Azure Monitor Application Insights
- Analyze resource utilization and performance using Azure Monitor Insights
- Analyze infrastructure security by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Analyze enterprise security by using Microsoft Sentinel
- Summary
- Module 3: Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
- Introduction
- Monitor the health of the virtual machine
- Exercise - Set up a VM with boot diagnostics
- View VM metrics
- Configure the Azure Diagnostics extension
- Exercise - Configure the Azure Diagnostics extension
- Diagnostic data case studies
- Exercise - Use diagnostic data
- Summary
- Module 4: Capture and view page load times in your Azure web app with Application Insights
- Introduction
- Enable Application Insights on an Azure web app
- Exercise - Enable Application Insights on an Azure web app
- View Application Insights metrics in the Azure portal
- Exercise - Use the Azure portal to visualize page load times for your app
- Summary
- Module 5: Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights
- Introduction
- What are Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights?
- Exercise - Set up a Log Analytics workspace and Azure Monitor VM Insights
- Build log queries by using the Kusto Query Language
- Exercise - Build log queries
- Summary
- Module 6: Analyze your Azure infrastructure by using Azure Monitor logs
- Introduction
- Features of Azure Monitor logs
- Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data
- Exercise - Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data
- Summary
- Module 7: Improve incident response with alerting on Azure
- Introduction
- Explore the different alert types that Azure Monitor supports
- Use metric alerts for alerts about performance issues in your Azure environment
- Exercise - Use metric alerts to alert on performance issues in your Azure environment
- Use log alerts to alert on events in your application
- Use activity log alerts to alert on events within your Azure infrastructure
- Exercise - Use activity log alerts to alert on events within your Azure infrastructure
- Use smart groups to reduce alert noise in Azure Monitor
- Summary
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