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Azure Monitor fundamentals

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Overview

  • Module 1: Learn what Azure Monitor is and where you would use it.

    • By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

    • 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.

    • In this module, you will:

    • 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.

    • In this module, you will:

    • 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.

    • In this module, you'll:

    • 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.

    • In this module, you will:

    • 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.

    • In this module, you will:

    • 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

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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