Overview

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Module 1: Learn how to monitor the health of your Azure VMs by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts.
In this module, you will:
- Identify metrics and diagnostic data that you can collect for virtual machines
- Configure monitoring for a virtual machine
- Use monitoring data to diagnose problems
Module 2: Learn how to use Azure Monitor VM Insights to monitor your organization's Azure virtual machines.
- Evaluate Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights.
- Configure a Log Analytics workspace.
- Build queries from the Heartbeat and InsightsMetrics tables.
Module 3: Understand the monitoring capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled servers. Learn about the benefits of and how to onboard Azure Arc-enabled servers to Azure Logs and Metrics, VM Insights, and Azure Monitor Alerts.
After you've completed this module, you'll be able to:
- Understand the usage of VM extensions to manage observability agents with Azure Arc-enabled servers.
- Evaluate different Azure Monitor offerings across logs, metrics, and alerts.
- Understand the onboarding process for and benefits of using VM Insights with Azure Arc-enabled servers.
Module 4: Monitor an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster using Container insights in Azure Monitor
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Enable Container insights for an AKS cluster.
- Use Container insights to view health and performance of the components of your AKS cluster.
- Enable an alert rule to fire when an issue with your cluster is detected.
- Create and action group to text you when an alert is fired.
Module 5: Learn about Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes and how it can help organizations optimize and simplify their operations.
- Describe Kubernetes, Azure Arc, and Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes.
- Understand how to enhance Kubernetes environments by connecting Kubernetes clusters to Azure Arc.
- Understand how to deploy applications to Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters by using GitOps to manage configurations.
- Learn about Azure services that can be deployed to Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters.
- Understand how to use Azure Policy and Azure Monitor with Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes.
Module 6: You learn to design and implement network monitoring solutions such as Azure Monitor and Network watcher.
At the end of this module, you are able to:
- Configure network health alerts and logging by using Azure Monitor
- Create and configure a Connection Monitor instance
- Configure and use Traffic Analytics
- Configure NSG flow logs
- Enable and configure diagnostic logging
- Configure Azure Network Watcher

Syllabus

Module 1: Module 1: Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
- Introduction
- Monitor the health of the virtual machine
- Exercise - Set up a VM with boot diagnostics
- View VM metrics
- Configure the Azure Diagnostics extension
- Exercise - Configure the Azure Diagnostics extension
- Diagnostic data case studies
- Exercise - Use diagnostic data
- Summary
Module 2: Module 2: Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights
- Introduction
- What are Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights?
- Exercise - Set up a Log Analytics workspace and Azure Monitor VM Insights
- Build log queries by using the Kusto Query Language
- Exercise - Build log queries
- Summary
Module 3: Module 3: Monitor your hybrid and multicloud machines through Azure Arc-enabled servers
- Introduction
- Deploy and manage observability agents with ease using VM extensions for Azure Arc-enabled servers
- Onboard Azure Arc-enabled servers to VM insights
- Develop a robust data foundation of Azure Arc enabled servers with Azure Monitor Metrics and Logs
- Smart and scalable alerts for Azure Arc-enabled servers with Azure Monitor
- Knowledge check
- Summary
Module 4: Module 4: Monitor an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster using Container insights in Azure Monitor
- Introduction
- Enable Container insights for your AKS cluster
- Exercise – Enable Container insights
- Monitor performance of your cluster
- Exercise - Monitor performance of your cluster
- Create Container insights alert rules
- Exercise – Create Container insights alert rules
- Knowledge check
- Summary
Module 5: Module 5: Introduction to Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
- Introduction
- Overview of Azure Arc
- Overview of Kubernetes and Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
- Connect Kubernetes clusters to Azure Arc
- Deploy services to Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters
- Use GitOps to configure Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters
- Manage Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes by using Azure Policy and Azure Monitor
- Knowledge check
- Summary
Module 6: Module 6: Design and implement network monitoring
- Introduction
- Monitor your networks using Azure monitor
- Exercise: monitor a load balancer resource using Azure monitor
- Monitor your networks using Azure network watcher
- Summary and resources