What is the primary benefit of using Azure Storage for log retention?

Cost-effective long-term storage

A company has an application that occasionally throws exceptions. They want to be alerted when the exception rate exceeds a threshold, but they do not want to be paged for every single exception. They also want to see the exception details in the alert notification. What should they configure?

Create an action group that sends an email for every exception logged.

Create a log alert rule in Log Analytics that queries the 'exceptions' table for a count of exceptions in the last 5 minutes, and include the query results in the alert notification.

Create a metric alert on the 'exceptions' metric in Application Insights with a static threshold.

Use Application Insights Smart Detection to alert on any exception.

What is the primary reason to route logs to an Azure Storage account?

Long-term archival and compliance retention

What is the role of Azure Diagnostics extension in Azure Monitor?

Creates and manages Azure Policy assignments

Manages virtual machine scale sets

Collects diagnostics data from Azure compute resources and sends it to Azure Monitor

Provides security recommendations for Azure resources

A company has multiple Azure subscriptions and wants a single monitoring solution. They need to collect activity logs, resource logs, and VM guest OS metrics, and they want to alert on specific conditions. What is the recommended design?

Create a separate Log Analytics workspace for each resource type and link them with Azure Monitor.

Create one Log Analytics workspace per subscription and use Azure Monitor to aggregate alerts across workspaces.

Use Azure Monitor Metrics as the primary store for all logs and alerts.

Create a single Log Analytics workspace and configure diagnostic settings from all subscriptions to send logs to that workspace.

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What is the primary benefit of using Azure Storage for log retention?
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A company has an application that occasionally throws exceptions. They want to be alerted when the exception rate exceeds a threshold, but they do not want to be paged for every single exception. They also want to see the exception details in the alert notification. What should they configure?
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What is the primary reason to route logs to an Azure Storage account?
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What is the role of Azure Diagnostics extension in Azure Monitor?
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A company has multiple Azure subscriptions and wants a single monitoring solution. They need to collect activity logs, resource logs, and VM guest OS metrics, and they want to alert on specific conditions. What is the recommended design?
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