Chapter 5 of 5 · Microsoft AZ-104
Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources
Azure Monitor metrics, logs and alerts, Network Watcher, Azure Backup and Site Recovery.
- 2topics
- 10 minfast track
- 1diagrams and exhibits
- 10–15%of the exam
Topics in this chapter
Take them in order, or jump to the one you need.
- 1Azure Monitor and AlertsAZ-104 monitoring: metrics and logs, diagnostic settings, Log Analytics and KQL, alert rules and action groups, alert processing…5 min
- 2Backup and Site RecoveryAZ-104 recovery: Recovery Services and Backup vaults, policies and instant restore, soft delete, Cross Region Restore and Site…Diagram5 min
About this chapter
What this chapter covers
This domain covers how you see what your resources are doing and how you recover when something goes wrong. It is the smallest domain, at 10 to 15 percent of the exam, but it contains many setting-level questions.
The topics are Azure Monitor metrics, logs and alerts, the Insights and Network Watcher tools, and protecting workloads with Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
How the topics fit together
The first page is about noticing a problem, and the second is about recovering from one.
- Azure Monitor and alerts covers metrics, logs, diagnostic settings, queries, alert rules, action groups, Insights and Network Watcher.
- Backup and Site Recovery covers vaults, backup policies, restores, soft delete, replication, failover and backup reports.
Backup answers "I lost data." Site Recovery answers "I lost a region." Many questions test whether you can tell them apart.
How to use these pages
Each topic page has the same shape, so you can skim for what you need.
- What it is: the idea in plain words.
- How it works: the mechanism, with diagrams and tables.
- What to remember for the exam: the facts to memorise.
- Common mistakes: the classic traps.
- Check yourself: three questions to test your understanding.
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