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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

By : Alexander Meijers
Book Image

Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

By: Alexander Meijers

Overview of this book

In today’s world, clients are using more and more IoT sensors to monitor their business processes and assets. Think about collecting information such as pressure in an engine, the temperature, or a light switch being turned on or off in a room. The data collected can be used to create smart solutions for predicting future trends, creating simulations, and drawing insights using visualizations. This makes it beneficial for organizations to make digital twins, which are digital replicas of the real environment, to support these smart solutions. This book will help you understand the concept of digital twins and how it can be implemented using an Azure service called Azure Digital Twins. Starting with the requirements and installation of the Azure Digital Twins service, the book will explain the definition language used for modeling digital twins. From there, you'll go through each step of building digital twins using Azure Digital Twins and learn about the different SDKs and APIs and how to use them with several Azure services. Finally, you'll learn how digital twins can be used in practice with the help of several real-world scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll be confident in building and designing digital twins and integrating them with various Azure services.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Azure Digital Twin Essentials
4
Section 2: Getting Started with Azure Digital Twins
11
Section 3: Digital Twins Advanced Techniques
19
Section 4: Digital Twin Implementations in Real-world Scenarios

Using alerts

Alerts allow us to respond to logs and metrics and act on them. There are different ways of creating alerts. Alerts are always created by defining rules. We can create alerts using the following:

  • Alert rules: Create an alert rule to identify and address issues based on conditions regarding the monitoring of data. These alerts are focusing on metrics.
  • Log alert: Create an alert rule around the resource's log. This is still in preview at the time of writing this book. The button is shown in Figure 15.10:

Figure 15.10 – Creating a new alert through the metrics page

Creating a rule consists of several steps:

  • Basic: This determines how an alert is sent out. Think of just informational, warning, or even an error.
  • Scope: The scope defines which resource is used to create an alert on.
  • Condition: This allows us to specify around which log query the alert needs to be specified. It allows the definition of the...