Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)Describe Azure management and governanceHard
A global company is planning to deploy a new mission-critical application on Azure. They need to collect and analyze telemetry data from all application components, including VMs, databases, and web apps, to monitor performance, identify potential issues, and troubleshoot errors. They require a unified platform for metrics, logs, and traces. Which Azure service is best suited for this comprehensive monitoring requirement?
- AAzure Advisor
- BAzure Monitor
- CAzure Security Center (Defender for Cloud)
- DAzure Sentinel
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: B. Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor provides a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It unifies metrics, logs, and traces across various Azure services (VMs, databases, web apps) and applications, making it ideal for monitoring mission-critical applications.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations for optimizing Azure deployments, not comprehensive monitoring.
- C. Azure Security Center (now Defender for Cloud) focuses on cloud security posture management and threat protection, not general application performance monitoring.
- D. Azure Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM/SOAR solution for security analytics and threat intelligence, not general application performance and health monitoring.
Azure Monitor
A comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
- Unifies metrics, logs, and traces in a single platform.
- Monitors performance, availability, and operations of applications and infrastructure.
- Enables alerting, auto-scaling, and troubleshooting.
Memory trick: Monitor: Metrics, Observations, Notifications, Insights, Traces, Operations, Reporting.