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Difficulty: HardAzure Service Health

An organization needs to monitor the status of its Azure deployments. The operations team must distinguish between issues affecting the overall Azure cloud infrastructure, events impacting services under their specific subscription, and availability issues of individual virtual machine instances. Which of the following actions should the team perform to achieve these goals? (Select TWO)

  1. Create Service Health alerts to receive notifications about planned maintenance and active service outages that affect the resources within their subscription.Answer
  2. Review Resource Health to diagnose whether a specific virtual machine is unavailable due to an Azure platform-level event rather than a configuration error within the guest operating system.Answer
  3. C
    Configure Azure Monitor metric alerts to automatically track global Azure service outages and scheduled platform maintenance across all regions.
  4. D
    Set up Azure Advisor alerts to monitor the real-time resource availability of individual virtual machines and track platform-level hardware failures.

Answer

To monitor subscription-level and resource-level health, the team should use Service Health alerts to track planned maintenance and active outages affecting their subscription, and use Resource Health to check the status of specific virtual machine instances.
The correct actions are using Service Health alerts for subscription-level events and Resource Health for specific resource-level failures. Service Health allows users to set up alerts for planned maintenance and outages affecting their specific subscriptions, while Resource Health shows the status of individual resources (like a virtual machine) and helps determine if an issue is caused by the Azure platform.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify subscription-wide tracking requirements.
Service Health alerts are identified as the correct tool for tracking subscription-wide maintenance and outages.
Service Health provides a personalized dashboard showing only the services and regions relevant to the target subscription.
2
Identify individual resource tracking requirements.
Resource Health is identified as the correct tool for checking specific virtual machine availability.
Resource Health drills down to the health of single resource instances and determines if downtime is platform-induced.
3
Evaluate the role of monitoring tools like Azure Monitor.
Azure Monitor is ruled out for tracking global or subscription-wide infrastructure outages.
Azure Monitor focuses on the performance and logs of customer-deployed workloads, not the health status of the underlying Azure cloud infrastructure.

Key Concept

Azure Service Health components and their distinction from Azure Monitor
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