Monitor & Backup Azure Resources
Log Analytics Workspace
Monitor
- Metrics
- Activity Log
- Alerts
- Networks:
- Connectivity
- Traffic
- Network health and metrics
Quick look
- Diagnostic Settings
- Metrics
- Insights
- Alerts:
- metrics
- activity log
Alert
- Alert rule (condition/event)
- Action Groups (what to do, i.e. email/sms)
Application Insights
Application Insights provides other features including, but not limited to:
- Live Metrics – observe activity from your deployed application in real time with no effect on the host environment
- Availability – also known as “Synthetic Transaction Monitoring”, probe your applications external endpoint(s) to test the overall availability and responsiveness over time
- GitHub or Azure DevOps integration – create GitHub or Azure DevOps work items in context of Application Insights data
- Usage – understand which features are popular with users and how users interact and use your application
- Smart Detection – automatic failure and anomaly detection through proactive telemetry analysis
Monitor components for Insight
- Connectivity
- Traffic
- Network health & metrics
References
| [Azure Application Insights Tutorial |
Amazing telemetry service](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0jAeGf2zUQ&t=541s) |
Backup Service
You need a Recovery Service vault in the same location.
- backup policy
- backup manually
- backup jobs
Snapshot consistency
- Application consistent
- File-System consistent
- Crash consistent
Backup VMs Sequence :bangbang:
- Backup Center
- Recovery Services Vault
- Backup
- Create or select existing backup policy
- Add the selected VMs to be backed up
- Enable Backup
Backup Restore
- File Restore
- VM Restore (youneed a storage account in the same location):
In case of new VM there won’t be any NSG linked to the new VM.
Deleting Recovery Services vault
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- From Properties of the Recovery Services Vault select: Security Settings.
- disable Always-on soft delete
Deleting backup items
- Service vault
- backup items
- vm
- stop backup
- delete backup data
Variuos
- File Recovery: select restore point / download the exec
Azure Recovery Service Agent - MARS
- Instatll the recovery service agent on a target VM.
- Reovery Service Vault and VM does not need to be within the same region.
Procedure
- Create a Recovery Service Vault
- Properties / Recovery Services Agent - Download
- copy the exe on the target vm (on premises or not)
Deleting Recovery Services vault
- From Properties of the Recovery Services Vault select: Security Settings.
- Backup items: delete backup data
- Delete Recovery Services vault
Backup Retention
Mars Agent Installer
- MARS: Microsoft Azure Recovery Serviceszx
- Create a resource: Backup and Site Recovery
- Properties
- Recovery Services Agent/Download
Azure file share backup
Azure Site Recovery
- Disaster Recovery
- Cache Storage Account
You can use the Azure Site Recovery tool to move the on-premises servers to Azure. :bangbang:
Azure Site Recovery Lab
- vm / Disaster recovery
- Target region