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An enterprise is designing a centralized operations strategy to manage their Azure deployments. The operations team needs to distinguish between tracking the health and performance of their deployed resources versus tracking global outages and planned maintenance of the Azure platform itself. Which of the following statements correctly identify the features or use cases of Azure Monitor compared to Azure Service Health? Select two.

  1. Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry data, such as resource metrics and activity logs, from your specific Azure resources to maximize their availability and performance.Answer
  2. B
    Azure Service Health is used to run Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries to analyze custom application logs collected from virtual machine guest operating systems.
  3. Azure Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents, planned maintenance, and resource health degradation caused by issues in the underlying Azure infrastructure.Answer
  4. D
    Azure Monitor is used to receive official alerts regarding global Azure service outages and health advisories that affect all Azure regions.

Answer

The correct statements are that Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry data from your specific Azure resources to maximize their availability and performance, and Azure Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents, planned maintenance, and resource health degradation caused by issues in the underlying Azure infrastructure.
The statement regarding Azure Monitor is correct because Azure Monitor is the core tool for collecting, analyzing, and alerting on performance telemetry from resources you deploy. The statement regarding Azure Service Health is correct because it informs you about platform-level events, outages, and maintenance that impact your subscriptions.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the primary purpose of Azure Monitor.
Azure Monitor is designed for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your own applications and resources (like virtual machine metrics or application logs).
This helps determine which statements correctly describe Azure Monitor.
2
Identify the primary purpose of Azure Service Health.
Azure Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents, planned maintenance, and other events that affect the underlying Azure platform itself.
This helps determine which statements correctly describe Azure Service Health.
3
Evaluate the options against these definitions.
The statement about Azure Monitor collecting telemetry is correct. The statement about Azure Service Health notifying you of platform incidents is correct. The statement about using Azure Service Health for KQL queries is incorrect. The statement about Azure Monitor alerting on global platform outages is incorrect.
This isolates the correct options.

Key Concept

Distinction between Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health
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Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

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