What's changed: Revamped AZ-900 Chapter 6 to the new depth (management tools interactive/scripted/IaC + Arc; monitoring Monitor/Log Analytics/App Insights/alerts/Advisor/Service Health)
6.2Monitoring Tools
Centered on Azure Monitor, understand Log Analytics (log queries), Application Insights (app monitoring), and the roles of Azure Advisor (recommendations) and Azure Service Health (status).
Operating the cloud with confidence means making state visible and noticing issues early. Azure monitoring centers on Azure Monitor in a flow of "collect → analyze → alert." Alongside it, Advisor advises on your resources and Service Health reports the status of Azure itself. Many terms sound alike, so organize them by what they target and what they do.
6.2.1Collect and analyze
- Azure Monitor: the monitoring foundation that collects metrics (numbers) and logs (records) from resources; analysis, alerts, and visualization branch from here.
- Log Analytics: a workspace to query and analyze collected logs with KQL (Kusto Query Language).
- Application Insights: monitors application performance, exceptions, and usage (APM = application performance monitoring).
- Alerts: trigger notifications or actions (email, webhook, automation) based on metric/log conditions.
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