Monitoring Tools

Question 1

What is Azure Advisor and what does it do?

Answer 1

• gives recommendations for your subscription
• analyzing your usage of Azure and based on that recommendations
• categories: cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, performance
• cost free advice

Question 2

What is Service Health?

Answer 2

• a dashboard inside of Azure
• talks about Azure-wide services as a whole, not your services
• information about ongoing service issues
• allows to set up an alert, for instance if certain regions are affected

Question 3

What is Azure Monitor and what does it do?

Answer 3

• centralized dashboard of all the logging and analytics across your account
• has a section for application insights
• has several ways of viewing data

Question 4

What are Application Insights?

Answer 4

• Application Performance Management service
• automatically monitors your application
• detects performance anomalies and helps to diagnose issues
• can be set-up when creating a web app for instance

Question 5

What does the logs view in Azure Monitor do?

Answer 5

• allows to run queries against certain resources (like storage accounts)
• to view logs
• contains pre-built queries
• queries are written Kusto / KQL, not SQL