AZ-900 Practice Question 29: Azure Monitor
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 3 · question 9 of 10
An operations team wants one service that collects metrics and logs from every Azure resource they run, lets them query those logs, and notifies them when a threshold is crossed. Which service should they use?
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Answer:
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's unified observability service for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry, bringing metrics, logs, traces, and events into a single experience across every Azure service you use. Log data lands in Log Analytics workspaces and is queried with Kusto Query Language, and Azure Monitor alerts proactively notify you when an issue appears in the collected data; the three requirements in the stem map onto the three parts of the product.
Option A, Azure Service Health, reports on the health of the Azure *platform* (outages, planned maintenance, and advisories affecting your subscription), and says nothing about your own resources' metrics. Option B, Azure Advisor, produces best-practice recommendations from your configuration and usage telemetry; it advises rather than collecting and alerting on live signals. Option D, Microsoft Cost Management, tracks and analyses spending, and the alerts it raises are budget thresholds in currency, not resource metrics.
Reference: Azure Monitor overview