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A global e-commerce company uses Azure Front Door to manage traffic to its geographically distributed web applications. They need to monitor the health and performance of their Front Door instances, including metrics like HTTP request latency, data transfer, and backend health. They also require the ability to analyze security logs related to Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies. Which Azure Monitor integration should be configured for this purpose?
- AAzure Monitor for Storage
- BAzure Monitor for Key Vault
- CAzure Monitor for Networks
- DAzure Monitor for SQL Database
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Correct answer: C. Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Monitor for Networks provides comprehensive monitoring for networking products like Azure Front Door, VPN Gateways, and Traffic Manager. It collects performance metrics, health data, and diagnostics logs, including WAF logs, into a centralized Log Analytics workspace.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Azure Monitor for Storage is for Azure Storage accounts, not networking services.
- B. Azure Monitor for Key Vault focuses on Key Vault performance and audit logs, not Front Door.
- D. Azure Monitor for SQL Database is for monitoring SQL databases, not network infrastructure.
Azure Monitor for Networks
A comprehensive solution within Azure Monitor that provides centralized monitoring and diagnostics for all Azure networking products and their dependencies. It includes pre-built workbooks, topology maps, and health views.
- Monitors Azure Front Door, VPN Gateways, Traffic Manager, ExpressRoute.
- Collects performance metrics, health, and diagnostics logs (e.g., WAF logs).
- Integrates with Log Analytics for advanced querying and visualization.
Memory trick: Networks' health and WAF logs are seen with Monitor for Networks.