5 - Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions.md

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions (15-20%)

Develop code to support scalability of apps and services

• Implement autoscaling rules and patterns
  • Best practices for Autoscale
  • Quickstart: Create a virtual machine scale set in the Azure portal
  • Tutorial: Create a virtual machine scale set and deploy a highly available app on Windows with Azure PowerShell
  • Tutorial: Create a virtual machine scale set and deploy a highly available app on Linux with the Azure CLI
• Implement code that handles transient faults
  • Transient fault handling

Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions

• Store and retrieve data in Azure Redis cache
  • Quickstart: Use Azure Cache for Redis with a .NET application
  • Quickstart: Create an ASP.NET web app
• Develop code to implement CDNs in solutions
  • Quickstart: Create an Azure CDN profile and endpoint using Resource Manager template
  • Tutorial: Add Azure CDN to an Azure App Service web app
• Invalidate cache content (CDN or Redis)

Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging

• Configure instrumentation in an app or service by using Application Insights
  • Start monitoring your ASP.NET Web Application
  • Monitor Azure App Service performance
• Analyze and troubleshoot solutions by using Azure Monitor
• Implement Application Insights Web Test and Alerts
  • Creating an Application Insights Web Test and Alert Programmatically