Becoming a Cloud Expert – Microsoft Azure IaaS – Level 2

Learn to Monitor Effectively the Performance, Health and Availability of Azure Services and Your Cloud Resources

Created by: Idan Gabrieli
Online Teacher | Data, Cloud, AI

What Will I Learn?

• The operation and business requirements for monitoring the performance and health of a cloud solution
• Understand the different types of telemetry data (metrics and logs) that can be collected
• Build your own demo system in Azure (using Linux, Apache, MySqL, PHP)
• Setup alert rules and action groups for creating an automation layer
• Simulate traffic load on the demo system
• Monitor the status of Azure platform and services
• Monitor your Azure resources (e.g. VMs, Storage accounts, VNet, Interfaces, NSGs, Web App)
• Analyze performance metrics in multiple layers (Azure hosting infrastructure, guest OS, application)
• Analyze logs using the kusto query language in Log Analytics
• Manage the life cycle of Azure alerts

Requirements

• General understanding of the main cloud computing models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
• The first level in the "Becoming a Cloud Expert - Microsoft Azure IaaS" training program
• Practical background in Azure IaaS platform - creating VMs, Virtual Networks, Storage Accounts etc.
• Basic Linux commands

Target audience

• IT and Cloud Experts
• Cloud Administrators
• DevOps Engineers
• Anyone preparing for Azure certification exams