4Security and Observability
- 4.1Secret Management and Identity
Understand securing an AI back-end’s secrets and configuration—Azure Key Vault (secrets/keys/certificates), Azure App Configuration (settings and feature flags), and keyless auth via managed identity with RBAC—from a developer’s view.
- 4.2Observability (Monitoring, Tracing, Logs)
Understand observability for a distributed AI back-end—instrumentation with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, Application Insights / Azure Monitor, log analysis with KQL, and monitoring tokens/cost/quality.

