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SCENARIO: Contoso Ltd is migrating its on-premises infrastructure to Azure. They want to monitor the health of their Azure services, track performance of their web applications, and receive alerts if there is an Azure regional outage.<br/><br/>Which service should Contoso use specifically to monitor the performance, detect anomalies, and diagnose issues within their custom web applications?

AZ-900 · Question 60 · Domain 3.4: Monitoring Tools

SCENARIO: Contoso Ltd is migrating its on-premises infrastructure to Azure. They want to monitor the health of their Azure services, track performance of their web applications, and receive alerts if there is an Azure regional outage.<br/><br/>Contoso wants to collect event logs and performance metrics from all their Azure VMs and store them in a central repository where they can run complex queries against the data. Which Azure Monitor feature should they use?

Answer options:

A.

Azure Service Health

B.

Azure Advisor

C.

Log Analytics

D.

Azure Resource Manager

How to approach this question

Identify the feature used for centralizing and querying log data.

Full Answer

C.Log Analytics✓ Correct
Log Analytics is a tool in the Azure portal used to edit and run log queries with data in Azure Monitor Logs. You can collect data from multiple sources (like VMs) into a Log Analytics workspace and use the Kusto Query Language (KQL) to analyze it.

Common mistakes

Confusing Log Analytics with Application Insights. Application Insights is specifically for web app code performance; Log Analytics is the underlying data store and query engine for all infrastructure logs.

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