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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Azure monitoring

The first question that should be answered is What must we monitor?. This question becomes more important for solutions that are deployed on the cloud because of constrained control over it.

There are some important components that should be monitored. They include the following:

  • Custom applications
  • Azure resources
  • Guest OS (virtual machines)
  • Host OS (Azure physical servers)
  • Azure infrastructure

There are different Azure logs and monitoring for the mentioned components.

Azure activity logs

Previously known as audit logs and operational logs, these are control plane events in the Azure subscription. They provide information and telemetry information at the subscription level instead of individual resource...