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Azure Monitor Metrics and Activity Log Baseline

Practice the AZ-104 monitoring baseline with Azure Monitor metrics, Activity Log filtering, diagnostic settings to storage, and health inspection without Log Analytics or action groups.

45 minutes
cloud/azure
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Lab Overview

Build a lightweight Azure monitoring baseline using subscription-scope tools available to Azure administrators.

You will create monitored storage resources, query Azure Monitor metrics, filter Activity Log events, send resource diagnostic data to a storage account, and inspect service and resource health without depending on Log Analytics workspaces or alert action groups.

What You'll Learn

Create Azure resources that provide a safe target for monitoring practice

Query Azure Monitor platform metrics for a resource

Filter Activity Log events by resource group, provider namespace, and operation

Configure diagnostic settings to archive resource telemetry to a storage account

Inspect Azure service health and resource health signals from the CLI

Prerequisites

Basic command line familiarity

Basic understanding of Azure resource groups and storage accounts

Technologies Covered

azureaz-104azure-monitormetricsactivity-logdiagnostics

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This lab is part of the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) course

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