You're reading from Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide A hands-on reference guide to developing your data engineering skills and preparing for the DP-203 exam

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801816069

Length 574 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Newton Alex

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Azure Basics

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Azure Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2: Data Storage

4. Chapter 2: Designing a Data Storage Structure

5. Chapter 3: Designing a Partition Strategy

6. Chapter 4: Designing the Serving Layer

7. Chapter 5: Implementing Physical Data Storage Structures

8. Chapter 6: Implementing Logical Data Structures

9. Chapter 7: Implementing the Serving Layer

10. Part 3: Design and Develop Data Processing (25-30%)

11. Chapter 8: Ingesting and Transforming Data

12. Chapter 9: Designing and Developing a Batch Processing Solution

13. Chapter 10: Designing and Developing a Stream Processing Solution

14. Chapter 11: Managing Batches and Pipelines

15. Part 4: Design and Implement Data Security (10-15%)

16. Chapter 12: Designing Security for Data Policies and Standards

17. Part 5: Monitor and Optimize Data Storage and Data Processing (10-15%)

18. Chapter 13: Monitoring Data Storage and Data Processing

19. Chapter 14: Optimizing and Troubleshooting Data Storage and Data Processing

20. Part 6: Practice Exercises

21. Chapter 15: Sample Questions with Solutions

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Configuring monitoring services

Azure Monitor is enabled as soon as we create an Azure resource. By default, the basic metrics and logs are recorded without requiring any configuration changes from the user side, but we can perform additional configurations such as sending the logs to Log Analytics, as we saw in the previous section. We can configure monitoring at multiple levels, as outlined here:

Application monitoring—Metrics and logs about the applications that you have written on top of Azure services.
Operating system (OS) monitoring—OS-level metrics and logs, such as CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, and so on.
Azure resource monitoring—Metrics and logs from Azure services such as Azure Storage, Synapse Analytics, Event Hubs, and more.
Subscription-level monitoring—Metrics and logs of Azure subscriptions, such as how many people are using a particular account, what is the account usage, and so on.
Tenant-level monitoring...