Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights for Beginners

Understanding the health and performance of your cloud applications and infrastructure is crucial for reliable operations. This course provides the foundational knowledge to effectively monitor and troubleshoot your Azure resources. By the end of this course, you will be able to configure, query, and analyze data from Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights, gaining critical insights into your system's behavior and enabling proactive problem-solving. What you'll learn: Understand the core concepts of Azure Log Analytics workspaces and data collection. Learn to write powerful queries using the Kusto Query Language (KQL) for log analysis. Configure Azure Application Insights to gather performance and usage telemetry from applications. Analyze application performance, user behavior, and error rates using collected data. Implement effective alerting strategies to proactively identify and respond to issues. Build custom dashboards to visualize key metrics and operational insights. The course begins with an introduction to cloud monitoring principles, then dives into the setup and usage of Azure Log Analytics, followed by comprehensive coverage of Azure Application Insights. It concludes with practical exercises on data analysis, alerting, and visualization. This course is designed for beginners with no prior experience in Azure monitoring or observability tools. No prerequisites are required beyond basic familiarity with cloud computing concepts. Start your journey to becoming proficient in Azure monitoring and ensure the reliability of your cloud solutions.