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Implementing Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: AZ-303 Exam Prep and Beyond

You're reading from   Implementing Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: AZ-303 Exam Prep and Beyond A guide to preparing for the AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam

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Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568570
Length 548 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Implement and Monitor Azure Infrastructure
2. Chapter 1: Implementing Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts 4. Chapter 3: Implementing and Managing Virtual Machines 5. Chapter 4: Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking 6. Chapter 5: Creating Connectivity between Virtual Networks 7. Chapter 6: Managing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) 8. Chapter 7: Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) 9. Chapter 8: Implementing and Managing Hybrid Identities 10. Section 2: Implement Management and Security Solutions
11. Chapter 9: Managing Workloads in Azure 12. Chapter 10: Implementing Load Balancing and Networking Security 13. Chapter 11: Implementing Azure Governance Solutions 14. Section 3: Implement Solutions for Apps
15. Chapter 12: Creating Web Apps Using PaaS and Serverless 16. Chapter 13: Designing and Developing Apps for Containers 17. Chapter 14: Implementing Authentication 18. Section 4: Implement and Manage Data Platforms
19. Chapter 15: Developing Solutions that Use Cosmos DB Storage 20. Chapter 16: Developing Solutions that Use a Relational Database 21. Chapter 17: Mock Exam Questions
22. Chapter 18: Mock Exam Answers
23. Assessments 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing costs

Because Azure is a Pay As You Go service, and due to the range and power of the available components, it can be easy to lose sight of costs.

Fortunately, Azure provides several tools to help monitor and alert you on your ongoing and forecast spend:

  1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com.
  2. In the left-hand menu, select or search for Subscriptions.
  3. Select the subscription you wish to view.

The overview page of a subscription shows you a high-level view of your current spend, broken down by your most costly resources, and a forecast based on currently deployed infrastructure, as shown here:

Figure 1.29 – Example costs dashboard

Figure 1.29 – Example costs dashboard

For a more detailed analysis, you can use the Cost Analysis tools.

Cost Analysis

In the Subscription blade, under Cost Management, click the Cost Analysis left-hand menu option. This view shows a more detailed and customizable set of charts. As shown in the following screenshot, the default view provides a breakdown by Service name, Location, and Resource group name:

Figure 1.30 – Cost analysis details

Figure 1.30 – Cost analysis details

This view can be configured as per your requirements using a mixture of the filtering and selection options in the top menu. You can view costs as charts or text and set timespans or grouping options.

As an example of what can be achieved through this view, we shall create a monthly cost per resource table that can then be exported to CSV:

  1. From the current Costs Analysis View, click the View menu, which by default will be Accumulated costs. The following screenshot shows the available options:
    Figure 1.31 – Example subscription costs

    Figure 1.31 – Example subscription costs

  2. Change the view to Cost by Resource.
  3. Now select the Granularity option and change it from None to Monthly:
    Figure 1.32 – Changing the Granularity to Monthly

    Figure 1.32 – Changing the Granularity to Monthly

  4. From the top menu, click Download, choose your export format, such as CSV, then click Download data.

Now that we have created a monthly cost per resource table, let’s take a look at budgets.

Budgets

Being able to view your current and forecast spend is, of course, important, but even more useful is the ability to alert you when thresholds are met. For this, we can use Budgets:

  1. From the current Subscription blade, click the Budgets option in the left-hand menu.
  2. Click Add on the top menu.
  3. Set the name, for example, MonthlyBudget.
  4. Set a budget amount, for example, 30. The budget amount is specified in your local currency.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Set an alert as an amount of your monthly budget. For example, if you want to be alerted when you have spent 80% of your budget, enter 80.
  7. Assign an action group if you set one up previously.
  8. Enter a recipient email for whoever should be alerted when the budget alert is reached.
  9. Click Create.

Setting budgets doesn’t prevent you from overspending, but it will alert you when your set thresholds are met.

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the Implement and Monitor Azure Infrastructure objective. We covered the various aspects of Azure Monitor and showed how you can use metrics to monitor all of your Azure resources and alerts to get notified when certain things are happening with your Azure resources.

We saw how Log Analytics and created queries so that we can get valuable data out of the logs. We looked at how Network Watcher can help you identify and resolve connectivity problems between devices. We covered how Activity Logs can highlight and notify you of security events. Finally, we also looked at how we can use the cost reporting and alerting features to help control costs.

In the next chapter, we will cover the second part of this exam objective. We will learn how to create and configure storage accounts.

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