AZ-1004: Deploy and configure Azure Monitor

Course AZ-1004: Deploy and configure Azure Monitor

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, students demonstrate the ability to implement and configure monitoring for Azure infrastructure. Candidates for this assessment lab should be familiar with operating systems, networking, servers, and virtualization.

Intermediate - Azure Monitor, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Network, Windows Server - Administrator - IT management and monitoring

Objectives of the AZ-1004 training

• Create and configure a Log Analytics workspace
• Configure change analysis
• Configure application monitoring
• Configure virtual machine (VM) monitoring
• Configure monitoring for virtual networks
• Configure alerts and responses

Course content AZ-1004

Module 1: Creating and configuring an Azure Log Analytics workspace

• Creating a Log Analytics workspace
• Configure access to Log Analytics workspaces
• Configuring Log Analytics data retention
• Configuring Log Analytics maintenance status alerts

Module 2 Application Monitoring Configuration

• Understanding Application Insights
• Application Insights Sampling
• Diagnostic configuration and resource logs
• Azure SQL Insights

Module 3: Configuring monitoring for virtual machines

• Deploying the Azure Monitor agent on IaaS virtual machines
• Performance monitoring with virtual machine information
• Configuring data collection rules for IaaS virtual machine logs

Module 4 Configuring Virtual Network Monitoring
Topology

• Connection monitor
• IP flow verification and NSG diagnostics
• Packet capture

Module 5 Configuring alerts and responses

• Azure Monitor alerts
• Action groups
• Alert rules
• Alert processing rules
• Azure Monitor change analysis

Module 6 Guided Project: Azure Implementation and Configuration

• Exercise: Preparing the Azure environment
• Exercise: Implementing Log Analytics
• Exercise: Monitoring web applications
• Exercise: Configuring process service monitoring
• Exercise: Setting up alerts

Prerequisites

Familiarity with operating systems, networks, servers, and virtualization is recommended.

Language

• Course: English / Spanish
• Labs: English / Spanish

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