Overview
Validate your technical skills and open doors to new possibilities of advancement with Microsoft Applied Skills.
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
Who Should Attend
- Administrator
Course Curriculum
Prerequisites
- Understand the basic functionality of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics workspaces.
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Course Modules
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Training Options
- VILT: Virtual Instructor-Led Training
- ILT: Instructor-Led Training
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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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