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Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Book Image

Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Complete with the latest advancements in Azure services, this second edition of Learn Azure Administration is a comprehensive guide to scaling your cloud administration skills, offering an updated exploration of Azure fundamentals and delving into the intricacies of Azure Resource Manager and Azure Active Directory. Starting with infrastructure as code (IaC) basics, this book guides you through the seamless migration to Azure Bicep and ARM templates. From Azure virtual networks planning to deployment, you’ll get to grips with the complexities of Azure Load Balancer, virtual machines, and configuring essential virtual machine extensions. You'll handle the identity and security for users with the Microsoft Entra ID and centralize access using policies and defined roles. Further chapters strengthen your grasp of Azure Storage security, supplemented by an overview of tools such as Network Watcher. By the end of the book, you’ll have a holistic grasp of Azure administration principles to tackle contemporary challenges and expand your proficiency to administer your Azure-based cloud environment using various tools like Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and infrastructure as code.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introduction to Azure for Azure Administrators
4
Part 2: Networking for Azure Administrator
7
Part 3: Administration of Azure Virtual Machines
12
Part 4: Azure Storage for Administrators
16
Part 5: Governance and Monitoring

Azure Log Analytics

Azure Log Analytics, being one of the most important components of Azure Monitor, allows you to run queries against logs stored in Azure Monitor’s datastore. While it’s not an independent service, it’s still worth diving deeper into, as many services and features allow you to integrate logs with this component. Azure Log Analytics is also one of the key elements of monitoring Azure infrastructure as it centralizes queries, alerts, and data.

In this chapter, we’ll extend your knowledge of Log Analytics by discussing details of workspaces, queries, and results visualization. The information contained in the upcoming sections will help you elevate your monitoring solutions in Azure so they provide more detailed, useful information.

In this chapter, we’ll cover a couple of different topics, including the following:

  • Getting started – an overview of Azure Log Analytics
  • Using workspaces
  • Querying data
  • Visualizing...