1. Design Monitoring (10-15%)

1.1 Design for cost optimization

recommend a solution for cost management and cost reporting

recommend solutions to minimize costs

1.2 Design a solution for logging and monitoring

determine levels and storage locations for logs

• Platform metrics: numerical values, automatically collected
  • describe some aspect of a resource at a particular time
• Resource logs: data plane
  • provide insight into operations that were performed within an Azure resource
• Activity log: management plane
  • provides insight into the operations on each Azure resource in the subscription from the outside

plan for integration with monitoring tools including Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel

• Azure Monitor
• Azure Sentinel

recommend appropriate monitoring tool(s) for a solution

• Azure Activity Log
  • allows you to monitor operations on resources in a subscription
  • can be queried and reviewed in a Log Analytics Workspace (use AzureActivity)
• Azure Sentinel
  • assists with alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response automatically
  • works with multiple tenants and there are currently more than 40 connectors for other systems available (3rd party providers)
  • allows monitoring Azure and on-premises services
  • aggregates and analyzes metrics, logs, and traces
• Application Insights
  • allows you to gather the application information from inside apps regardless of where they are running and to analyze internal bottlenecks.

choose a mechanism for event routing and escalation

recommend a logging solution for compliance requirements

• Azure Policy