Monitoring Azure Resources
Monitoring Azure Resources is the fifth skill area of the AZ-104 exam and covers Azure Monitor, backup and recovery, and operational optimization across cloud workloads. Candidates must demonstrate hands-on ability to interpret metrics and logs, configure alerts, implement Azure Backup and Site Recovery for data protection and disaster recovery, and use Azure Advisor and Update Manager to maintain resource health and security posture.
Required skill for certification: Azure Administrator Associate
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Monitoring Azure Resources is the fifth and final skill area of the AZ-104 exam and covers the continuous oversight, alerting, and data protection strategies that ensure Azure workloads remain healthy, performant, and recoverable throughout their lifecycle.
The skill centers on Azure Monitor as the unified observability platform, which includes metrics for near real-time numerical data, logs for querying and analyzing telemetry with Kusto Query Language, and alerts that proactively notify administrators or trigger automated actions when conditions breach defined thresholds. Administrators must configure diagnostic settings to route platform logs and metrics to Log Analytics workspaces, provision Azure Monitor Agent for guest OS monitoring, and set up Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts for recommended alerting configurations. The skill also includes Azure Backup for protecting VMs, files, and databases through policy-driven backup schedules and Azure Site Recovery for disaster recovery.
For the AZ-104 certification exam, candidates must demonstrate hands-on ability to interpret metrics in Azure Monitor, configure log settings and alerts, implement backup and recovery using Azure Backup and Recovery Services vaults, and configure Azure Site Recovery for virtual machine replication.
Courses on Monitoring Azure Resources
The AZ-104 Certification
Monitoring Azure Resources is an official required skill for the AZ-104 certification exam. Mastering this skill is important, because it is one of the measured skills you will be tested on during the exam.
The AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate certification is an associate-level credential that validates your ability to configure, manage, secure, and administer cloud services in Microsoft Azure, and requires annual renewal to maintain active status
