Azure Monitor Fundamentals: Deploying and Configuring Cloud Monitoring

Maintaining visibility into your cloud workloads is essential for ensuring application uptime and performance. This text-based course guides you through the foundational concepts of cloud observability using Azure Monitor. You will gain the practical skills needed to deploy monitoring solutions, collect diagnostic data, and respond to infrastructure events before they impact your users. What you'll learn: Understand core cloud observability concepts and Azure Monitor architecture; Configure Log Analytics workspaces to collect and analyze resource data; Monitor compute, networking, and web applications effectively; Create and manage alert rules to automate incident response; Query log data using basic Kusto Query Language (KQL) commands; Set up modern workspace-based Application Insights for performance monitoring. You will start with key terminology and architectural basics before moving into step-by-step written walkthroughs for deploying workspaces, configuring diagnostic settings, and setting up real-time alerts. This course is designed for IT beginners, aspiring cloud administrators, and DevOps enthusiasts, with no prior cloud monitoring experience required. Start building your cloud monitoring skills today.