This book will cover all of the exam objectives for the AZ-300 exam. When relevant, we will provide you with extra information and further reading guidance about the different topics of this book.
This chapter introduces the first objective, which is going to cover the Deploy and Configure Infrastructure. It will cover Azure Monitor and the various aspects of it. You will learn how to create and analyze metrics and alerts and how to create a baseline for resources. We are going to look at how to create action groups and how to configure diagnostic settings on resources. Finally, we are going to cover Azure Log Analytics and how to utilize log search query functions.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Understanding Azure Monitor
- Creating and analyzing metrics and alerts
- Creating a baseline for resources
- Configuring diagnostic settings on resources
- Viewing alerts in Log Analytics
- Utilizing log search query functions
The demos in this chapter use an Azure Windows VM. To create a Windows VM in Azure, you can refer to the following walk-through: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/quick-create-powershell.