Optimize Cloud Performance: Deploy and Configure Azure Monitor.
Gain complete visibility into your cloud environment with this in-depth course on deploying and configuring Azure Monitor. Designed for IT professionals and cloud administrators, this training will teach you how to monitor and manage Azure resources effectively.
Learn to set up performance metrics, create alerts, and ensure your infrastructure runs smoothly by optimizing performance and detecting issues before they impact your organization.
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Overview
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In this learning path, you practice implementing Azure Monitor to collect, analyze and act on monitoring telemetry from Azure environments. You learn to configure and interpret monitoring for virtual machines, networking, and web applications.
Skills Covered
- Create and configure a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure change analysis
- Configure monitoring for applications
- Configure monitoring for virtual machines (VMs)
- Configure monitoring for virtual networks
- Configure alerts and responses
Prerequisites
- Understand the basic functionality of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics workspaces.
Target Audience
- Administrator

Module 1: Create and configure a Log Analytics workspace
Understand how to create and configure a Log Analytics workspace, and how to configure data retention and health status alerts for the workspace.
Learning objectives
- Create a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure access to a Log Analytics Workspace
- Configure data retention for a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure Health Status Alerts for a Log Analytics workspace
Module 2: Configure monitoring for applications
Understand how to monitor the performance of your applications and how to collect and analyze the appropriate telemetry to improve application performance.
Learning objectives
- Describe how Application Insights is used to monitor application performance
- Distinguish between the different Application Insights sampling rates
- Describe Azure diagnostic settings and resource logs
- Leverage Azure SQL Insights to improve performance of Azure SQL database applications
Module 3: Configure monitoring for virtual machines
Understand how to deploy and configure Azure Monitor Agent on IaaS VMs and how to enable VM Insights and Data Collection Rules to monitor performance and application telemetry.
Learning objectives
- Describe the Azure Monitor Agent and how it can be deployed to IaaS Virtual Machines
- Explain VM Insights and how to use it to monitor IaaS VM performance
- Enable data collection rules to collect operating system and application logs
Module 4: Configure monitoring for virtual networks
Understand how to use Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor, flow logs, NSG diagnostics, and packet capture to monitor connectivity across your Azure IaaS network resources.
Learning objectives
- Create and configure an Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor
- Create and configure a flow log
- Enable Traffic Analytics
- Configure access to flow logs
Module 5: Configure alerts and responses
Understand how to configure and manage alerts and responses in order to proactively manage notifications about potential issues before those issues become problems for your users.
Learning objectives
- Describe the purpose of and identify the different types of alerts
- Explain how action groups are used to notify users about alerts
- Configure and manage alert rules
- Configure alert processing rules to modify triggered alerts
- Describe how Change Analysis provides insight into changes made to Azure resources
Module 6: Guided Project – Deploy and configure Azure Monitor
Understand how to configure monitoring of various workloads and infrastructure services using Azure Monitor.
Learning objectives
- Deploy and configure Log Analytics.
- Configure monitoring for Web apps.
- Monitor compute and networking services.
- Configure alerts.
Dates & Locations
September 9, 2026 - September 9, 2026
September 9, 2026 - September 9, 2026
December 3, 2026 - December 3, 2026
December 3, 2026 - December 3, 2026

Exam & Certification
To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to deploy and configure monitoring for Azure infrastructure.
Candidates for this assessment lab should be familiar with operating systems, networking, servers, and virtualization.
Tasks performed
- Create and configure a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure change analysis
- Configure monitoring for applications
- Configure monitoring for virtual machines (VMs)
- Configure monitoring for virtual networks
- Configure alerts and responses
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