Monitor the usage, performance, and availability of resources with Azure Monitor

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Free Online Course: Monitor the usage, performance, and availability of resources with Azure Monitor provided by Microsoft Learn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 5-6 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

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