📚 Series

Azure - Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources

A memorization-first micro-learning course for the AZ-104 \"Monitor and maintain Azure resources\" domain. Eleven short episodes take you from the Azure Monitor mental model through metrics, logs, alerts, insights and networking to backup, restore and disaster recovery — each with worked scenarios, exam-style questions and the exact numbers to memorize.

Episodes (4)

1 S 1 — Azure Monitor: the mental model Azure Monitor as one unified observability service — the mental model that turns the whole AZ-104 monitoring domain into navigation instead of memorization. Learn the collect–analyze–respond loop and the metrics-vs-logs anchor that every later topic hangs on.
2 S 2 — Metrics & Metrics Explorer What an Azure metric really is — where it comes from, how long it lives, and how to slice it in Metrics Explorer with aggregation, filtering and splitting. Build the fluency to read any near-real-time chart and raise a metric alert with confidence.
3 S 3 — Logs, the Log Analytics Workspace & KQL How Azure Monitor Logs lands telemetry from Azure and beyond in one Log Analytics workspace, and how KQL turns it into answers. Understand tables, table plans, retention and access so you can control both cost and query power.
4 S 4 — The data-collection pipeline The pipeline that decides what Azure Monitor can actually see: activity log, resource logs, diagnostic settings, the Azure Monitor Agent and data collection rules. Master control-plane vs data-plane and know exactly what is collected by default versus what you must switch on.