Associate your web app with Application Insights Now that your Application Insights has been set up, you will need to link it to your application: Figure 20.44 – Turn on Application Insights Figure 20.45 – Enable Application Insights Figure 20.46 – Associating an application with Application Insights Figure 20.47 – Applying monitoring settings You have […]
Creating and configuring backup policies – Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions
Creating and configuring backup policies The Azure Backup service is used to back up resources and data in Azure. This can be used for cloud-only or hybrid scenarios, where you want to back up your on-premises VMs to Azure. Your on-premises backup solution can also be extended to the cloud in conjunction with Azure Backup. […]
Performing backup and restore operations via Azure Backup – Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions
Performing backup and restore operations via Azure Backup One of the most important parts of backup operations is to ensure that the resource gets backed up and can be restored. To test whether the resource was backed up correctly, you should test the backup by doing a restore. Let’s go ahead and use the Azure […]
Performing site-to-site recovery via Azure Site Recovery – Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions
Performing site-to-site recovery via Azure Site Recovery Azure Site Recovery is intended to be used as part of an organization’s disaster recovery or business continuity plans, which it does by ensuring applications and workloads are accessible during outages. A simple example of Site Recovery would be to replicate a VM from the primary region to […]
Configuring and reviewing backup reports – Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions
Configuring and reviewing backup reports In the Creating and configuring backup policies section, we learned how to configure backups using Azure Backup. Now, we are going to learn how to configure backup reports to forecast cloud storage and auditing for backup and restore operations. Let’s go ahead and configure backup reports via Backup center in […]
Downloading and extracting files for labs – Practice Labs – Monitoring and Backing Up Azure Resources
Downloading and extracting files for labs Follow these steps to download and extract the files: Figure 22.1 – Downloading files (ZIP) Figure 22.2 – Extract All (ZIP) You have downloaded all the files you need for performing the labs later in the chapter. Azure Recovery Services Vault with VM backup lab This labwill guide you […]
Azure Monitor lab – Practice Labs – Monitoring and Backing Up Azure Resources
Azure Monitor lab This lab will guideyou through creating a VM and setting up Azure Monitor in Azure. You will configure diagnostic settings and export these to Log Analytics and review various mechanisms to analyze data about your environment. Estimated time: 45 minutes Lab method: PowerShell and the Azure portal Lab scenario: In this lab, […]
Exploring automation – Introducing DevOps Principles
Exploring automation We’re going to start with why automation is needed in life in general and then we’ll move toward a more specific definition that relates to DevOps and other tech team activities. Automation is for the lazy, but many do not realize how hard you must work and how much you must study to […]
Understanding logging and monitoring – Introducing DevOps Principles
Understanding logging and monitoring Switching to a more grounded topic, one of the driving principles of DevOps is logging and monitoring instances, endpoints, services, and whatever else you can track and trace. This is necessary because regardless of whatever you do, how clean your code is, or how good your server configuration is, something will […]
Monitoring – Introducing DevOps Principles
Monitoring When you look at the title of this section, Understanding logging and monitoring, some of you might wonder, what’s the difference? Well, that’s valid. It took me a while to figure that out as well. And I believe that it comes down to a couple of things: In many ways, it is like the […]