What is the purpose of an action group in Azure Monitor alerts?

To define the notifications and actions taken when an alert fires

To define the query that triggers an alert

A company wants to monitor the performance of their Azure SQL Database. They need to see metrics like DTU usage, storage percentage, and deadlocks. They want to visualize these metrics on a custom dashboard that also includes metrics from their VMs. What should they do?

Use Azure SQL Analytics to view the metrics, and export the dashboard to a Power BI report.

Use Azure Monitor Metrics Explorer to create a chart with the SQL Database metrics, and pin it to an Azure Dashboard along with VM metrics.

Enable Azure Diagnostics on the SQL Database and send metrics to a Log Analytics workspace, then create a workbook.

Create a custom metric in Azure Monitor by using the Azure CLI to collect SQL Database performance data.

A company has a distributed application with multiple microservices. They are experiencing intermittent failures that are hard to reproduce. They need to trace a single user request across all microservices to identify the failing component. What should they implement?

Enable distributed tracing in Application Insights by instrumenting each microservice with the Application Insights SDK, and ensure correlation IDs are propagated in HTTP headers.

Use Azure Service Map to visualize the dependencies between microservices and identify the failing component.

Use Azure Monitor Logs to query the 'requests' table from each microservice and manually correlate them by timestamp.

Enable Azure Diagnostics on each microservice and send logs to a single Log Analytics workspace, then use a workbook to visualize the logs.

An e-commerce application uses Application Insights. The team wants to be alerted when the 99th percentile of server response time exceeds 2 seconds for 10 minutes. They also want to be notified via SMS and email. What should they configure?

An availability alert rule that checks the application's endpoint and alerts if the response time exceeds 2 seconds.

A custom alert rule in Application Insights that uses the 'response time' metric and sets the aggregation to 'percentile'.

A metric alert rule on the 'Server response time' metric with a static threshold of 2 seconds, and an action group with SMS and email.

A log search alert rule that queries the requests table for the 99th percentile of duration, with an evaluation frequency of 5 minutes, and an action group with SMS and email.

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41foundation · easy
What is the purpose of an action group in Azure Monitor alerts?
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42application · medium
A company wants to monitor the performance of their Azure SQL Database. They need to see metrics like DTU usage, storage percentage, and deadlocks. They want to visualize these metrics on a custom dashboard that also includes metrics from their VMs. What should they do?
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43expert · hard
A company has a distributed application with multiple microservices. They are experiencing intermittent failures that are hard to reproduce. They need to trace a single user request across all microservices to identify the failing component. What should they implement?
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44application · medium
An e-commerce application uses Application Insights. The team wants to be alerted when the 99th percentile of server response time exceeds 2 seconds for 10 minutes. They also want to be notified via SMS and email. What should they configure?
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45foundation · easy
Which tool in the Azure portal is used to write and run queries against Azure Monitor Logs?
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