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A company hosts a database workload on Azure Virtual Machines in the West US region. The cloud operations team must set up automated notifications for the following scenarios:

- Situation 1: Microsoft experiences a platform-level infrastructure failure that affects all Azure Virtual Machines in the West US region.
- Situation 2: The memory utilization of the company's specific database virtual machines exceeds 85%.

Which combination of Azure services should the team use to monitor these scenarios?

  1. Azure Service Health for Situation 1, and Azure Monitor for Situation 2Answer
  2. B
    Azure Monitor for Situation 1, and Azure Service Health for Situation 2
  3. C
    Azure Service Health for both Situation 1 and Situation 2
  4. D
    Azure Policy for Situation 1, and Azure Advisor for Situation 2

Answer

Azure Service Health for Situation 1, and Azure Monitor for Situation 2
The correct answer accurately distinguishes between platform-level health tracking and individual resource-level telemetry tracking. Azure Service Health is the designated service to receive notifications about regional outages, planned maintenance, and health advisories affecting Azure infrastructure. Azure Monitor is designed to gather, analyze, and alert on performance telemetry data (such as CPU, disk, and memory metrics) from individual resources like Azure Virtual Machines.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the scope of Situation 1.
Situation 1 involves a platform-level regional infrastructure outage managed by Microsoft that impacts all users in a region.
Identifying that this is a global cloud provider event helps map it to Azure Service Health, which reports service outages and planned maintenance.
2
Analyze the scope of Situation 2.
Situation 2 involves measuring internal resource performance (memory utilization over 85%) on a specific set of virtual machines.
Identifying that this is a localized resource performance metric helps map it to Azure Monitor, which collects telemetry data from Azure resources.
3
Select the option that combines these two mappings correctly.
Azure Service Health corresponds to Situation 1, and Azure Monitor corresponds to Situation 2.
This combination ensures both platform availability notifications and resource performance alerts are properly monitored.

Key Concept

Distinction between Azure Monitor (resource performance monitoring) and Azure Service Health (global platform availability status)
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Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

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