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A global media company uses Azure for its content delivery network (CDN) and streaming services. They need to monitor the performance and availability of their CDN endpoints, track user-perceived performance, and analyze logs for potential security threats. The solution must provide real-time alerts and integrate with their existing incident management system. Which Azure monitoring service should be primarily used to meet these requirements?
- AAzure Network Watcher
- BAzure Service Health
- CAzure Monitor with Log Analytics and Application Insights
- DAzure Security Center (Defender for Cloud)
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Correct answer: C. Azure Monitor with Log Analytics and Application Insights
Azure Monitor, combined with Log Analytics for log aggregation and querying, and Application Insights for application performance monitoring (including user-perceived performance and CDN integration), provides a comprehensive solution for performance, availability, and log analysis with alerting capabilities.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Azure Network Watcher focuses on network diagnostics and monitoring, not application or CDN performance.
- B. Azure Service Health provides information about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance, not application-specific monitoring.
- D. Azure Security Center (Defender for Cloud) focuses on security posture management and threat protection, not general performance and availability monitoring.
Azure Monitor Suite
Azure Monitor is a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from Azure and on-premises environments, encompassing logs, metrics, application performance, and network monitoring.
- Collects metrics and logs from various sources.
- Provides visualization, analysis, and alerting capabilities.
- Includes Log Analytics for log management and Application Insights for APM.
Memory trick: Monitor everything: logs, apps, metrics, all in one place.