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• 1.1.1 Implement cloud infrastructure monitoring

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• What is the primairy goal of Azure Platform Logs?

  To provide detailed diagnostic and auditing information for Azure resources and the Azure platform they depend on.

• What are the two categories of Azure Platform Logs?

  • Activity Logs (to determine the what, who and and when for any write operations.
  • Resource Logs (log of specific resources)

• What are the three destinations that you can configure Azure resources to write platform logs to using diagnostic settings?

  1. Log Analytics Workspace (for analyzing, queries and visualization)
     
  2. Event Hubs (External systems like SIEM)
  3. Azure Storage Account (less expensive)

• What are the three requirements for DIagnostic Logs Destinations?

  1. Log Analytics Workspace in the same region for beter performance
     
  2. Streaming to event hubs requires manage, send and listen permissions.
  3. Use a dedicated storage account for monitoring purposes in order to control access to it.

• Name three benefits of using Azure Security Center

  1.  Strengthen Security Posture
  2. Protect against Threats
  3. Get secure faster

• What does Azure Monitor for VMs monitor?

  It monitors the performance and health of vms and virtual machine scale sets. (Including running processes and dependencies on other respurces)

• Name three benefits of Azure Monitor for VMs

  1. Helps deliver predictable performance and availability
     
  2. Helps identify performance bottlenecks and network issues
  3. Helps to see if a problem is related to other depencies such as networks or external storage)

• What 5 types of vms does azure monitor support?

  1. Azure virtual machines
     
  2. Azure virtual machine scale sets
  3. Hybrid virtual machines connected with Azure Arc
  4. On-premise virtual machines
  5. virtual machines hosted in other cloud environment.

• What are the three steps for configuring Azure Monitor for VMs?

  1. Create Log analytics workspace
  2. Add VM insights solution to workspace
  3. install agents on virtual machine and virtual machine scale sets

• What are the 2 limitations for azure monitor for linux vms?

  1. Available memory is not supported for RHEL 6 and under
     
  2. metrics only available for XFS or EXT filesystems.