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Lab scenario

Your organization wants insight into the performance and configuration of Azure resources. As the Azure Administrator you need to:

• Explore Azure virtual machine monitoring capabilities, including available metrics.
• Explore alerts and notification features.
• Review logs by using Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) queries.

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Objectives

• Task 1: Provision the lab environment.
  • Review an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template.
  • Use the ARM template to deploy a virtual machine to use to test monitoring scenarios.
• Task 2: Register the Microsoft Insights and Microsoft Alerts Management resource providers.
  • Create a Log Analytics workspace in the same region as the virtual machines.
  • Create an Azure Automation Account and associate it with the Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspace.
  • Enable update management.
• Task 3: Create and configure an Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspace and Azure Automation-based solutions.
  • Review Azure virtual machine monitoring options.
  • Review the list of available metrics.
• Task 4: Review default monitoring settings of Azure virtual machines.
• Task 5: Configure Azure virtual machine diagnostic settings.
  • Review the Azure virtual machine monitoring settings and enable guest-level monitoring.
  • Enable Azure Monitor Agent and available metrics.
• Task 6: Review Azure Monitor functionality.
  • Configure Azure Monitor metrics.
  • Create an alert rule based on average percentage CPU.
  • Configure notifications for an action group.
  • Trigger increased CPU utilization and review alert notifications.
• Task 7: Review Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) functionality.
  • Create a log query to chart the virtual machine's available memory over the last hour.
  • Run the log query and preview the data.

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