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 […]
Category: Creating a Recovery Services vault
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 […]
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 […]
Creating a Recovery Services vault – Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions
Creating a Recovery Services vault An Azure Recovery Services vault is a native service within Azure that stores data such as copies of data (backups), as well as configures VMs, servers, files, and more. An Recovery Services vault enables you to use the following: • Azure Backup: Azure Backup is used to back up VMs, […]
How to respond to an incident (in life and DevOps) – Introducing DevOps Principles
How to respond to an incident (in life and DevOps) Incidents happen, and the people who are responsible for dealing with these incidents need to handle them. Firefighters have to battle fires, doctors have to treat the sick, and DevOps engineers have to contend with a number of incidents that can occur when running the […]
Site reliability engineering – Introducing DevOps Principles
Site reliability engineering So, site reliability engineering (SRE) is considered a form of DevOps by many and is considered to be separate from DevOps by others. I’m putting this section in here because, regardless of your opinion on the subject, you as a DevOps Engineer will have to deal with the concepts of site reliability, […]
Post-mortems – Introducing DevOps Principles
Post-mortems An incident happens. It affects business value and the users of the application, and then it goes away or is solved. But what’s to say it doesn’t happen again? What could be done to mitigate it before it even has the chance to happen again? Post-mortems are the answer to all of that. Any […]