AZ-400: Implement continuous feedback

  • Learning Path
  • 5 Modules

At a glance

This learning path teaches you to implement continuous feedback practices throughout your DevOps cycle. Learn to track application usage and system flow, develop monitoring dashboards for real-time visibility, share knowledge effectively within teams, automate application analytics to identify trends early, and manage alerts while building a just culture through blameless retrospectives. By implementing these practices, you'll create feedback loops that drive continuous improvement, reduce incident response time, and build team cultures where learning from failures strengthens rather than weakens organizational resilience.

Prerequisites

  • Understanding of DevOps principles and practices.
  • Familiarity with Azure DevOps or GitHub for version control and CI/CD.
  • Basic knowledge of application monitoring concepts.
  • Experience with Azure services and the Azure portal.

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Modules in this learning path

Implement Tools to Track Usage and Flow

This module introduces you to continuous feedback practices and monitoring tools essential for tracking application usage and flow. Learn how to implement Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights to gain deep insights into application performance, user behavior, and system health. Explore Kusto Query Language (KQL) for powerful data analysis and understand the inner loop development workflow for faster feedback cycles.

Develop monitor and status dashboards

This comprehensive module teaches you to develop effective monitoring and status dashboards for modern DevOps environments. You'll learn to use Azure Dashboards for integrated visualizations, Azure Monitor Workbooks for interactive reporting, and Power BI for advanced analytics. Learn to configure GitHub monitoring, track critical pipeline health metrics (failure rates, duration, flaky tests), and optimize pipeline performance for cost, time, and reliability. Discover strategies for building custom monitoring applications and implementing concurrency optimization to maximize throughput while controlling costs.

Share knowledge within teams

This module teaches you to establish effective knowledge sharing practices within development teams using Azure DevOps Wikis, GitHub documentation, and Microsoft Teams integration. Learn to create and manage project wikis, write documentation with Markdown and Mermaid diagrams, integrate DevOps tools with communication platforms, and implement strategies to preserve organizational knowledge as teams evolve. Discover how to avoid relearning lessons, reduce onboarding time, and improve team collaboration through structured documentation and real-time notifications.

Design processes to automate application analytics

This module teaches you to design automated analytics processes for modern applications. Learn to implement Application Insights, integrate telemetry data, use augmented search for rapid problem identification, and select appropriate monitoring tools to ensure application health and optimal user experience in fast-paced DevOps environments.

Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture

This module teaches you to manage monitoring alerts effectively, conduct blameless retrospectives that focus on learning rather than blame, and build a just culture where engineers feel safe reporting mistakes. Learn to improve application performance by identifying real issues with Azure Application Insights smart detection, reducing meaningless alerts, and understanding server response-time degradation patterns.

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